Warehousing - A Quick Overview

1. Warehousing A Quick Overview

2. Synopsis The Truth About Warehousing Safety Within A Warehouse How Warehousing Can Save Small Businesses Big Money All You Need to Know about Selecting the Best Warehousing Service Learn How to Find the Best Warehousing Service

3. The Truth About Warehousing • More than 145,000 people work throughout 7,000 different warehouses, and the fatal injury rate in warehousing jobs is higher than the national average in almost all other industries. • The bulk of injuries that occur in warehousing are due to unsafe use of forklifts (not following protocol), improper organization of products (stacking), failure to use protective equipment on your person, failure to follow proper lockout procedures, improper fire safety procedures, and repetitive motion injuries such as bending and lifting over 35 pounds. • Many people overestimate how much their bodies can handle. Sure, lifting fifty pounds is easy. Once. Can you do it all day? Can you do it repetitively? These are important questions to ask yourself before applying for a warehouse job. They do have training courses for safety procedures, but over half of employees don’t follow them; assuming that these injuries couldn’t happen to them. Sure, workmans’ comp is great, until you can never work again.

4. Safety Within A Warehouse • One being safe while operating or being around machinery. As a safety measure, certification is needed to drive a forklift. This is to help the individual who’s operating the forklift, learn how to drive and operate it correctly. Some of these guidelines include training, driving safety and recommendations for speed, maintaining the safety of clearances, and any hazardous materials associated with operating a forklift. • Another is hazardous material safety. Training is required to inform employees where the hazardous materials are located in the exterior and interior of a warehouse. You learn how to handle the materials accurately and what to do in case you come in contact. All hazard materials contain labels. Protective wear needs to available to be used when handling, being near and in contact with. Knowing the specifics on how to store the hazardous materials is also important.

5. Safety Within A Warehouse • Electrical wiring is said to be one of the leading causes of injury or damage. Warehouses should have ground fault circuit interrupters to minimize any risks. You should be trained on how to use extinguishers and what kind to use to put out any electrical fires. An evacuation plan should be known by all employees and have practice drills. • The products within the warehouse are stored mostly on shelving. Be aware of what’s being stored and how you are storing. Know when storing goods of what would be a harmful interaction with other goods. You need to be familiar with using safety measure on loading, stacking and removal of the goods. • OSHA has all safety regulations, recommendations on storing and handling, list of possible interactions and what kind of first aide that would be needed, in case you come into contact. It’s your employer's responsibility to go over, show where the OSHA regulations book is kept and any training of safety.

6. How Warehousing Can Save Small Businesses Big Money • Flexibility keeps things easy-and drives down the cost. • There are many warehouses with a great square footage that can accommodate the needs of many businesses at once-especially small ones. Some offer a rate that is not a fixed price but is rather a price for the amount of storage real estate you’re interested in occupying in their warehouse. • Look to warehouses that offer delivery solutions, too. • There is an increasing desire for a reduction in the third-party handling of a business’ goods. This costs more money and eats up more time. As a solution to this and to best serve the businesses with whom they have a relationship, more and more warehouses are offering the option of full-service delivery.

7. How Warehousing Can Save Small Businesses Big Money • Their company will pick up your product from its shipping arrival, warehouse it and then deliver it right to the customer’s door. This saves you, the business owner, money by taking one extra company to work with out of the equation. That’s one less person that your money has to go toward. • A National Network Can Reduce Cost and Lead Times • If the warehousing company that you’re working with feeds into a national delivery network, then you’ve found a company that is saving you some cash. Reduced transportation costs will save you money while faster arrival times to the customer’s door will guarantee you a returned customer in the future.

8. All You Need to Know about Selecting the Best Warehousing Service • You should check the layout of the warehouse. Even if a warehouse is large enough to offer good storage space, it may not be usable if its layout does not suit your needs. It may never fit the way you run your business. • You should check the size of the storage space and see if it is enough for you to store everything effectively. Remember, you should look for space that is enough to store your products. It should not be too small or too large. If it is too large, you will not be able to utilize the available space. • You should check the availability of different facilities when determining if a warehousing service is going to work for you or not. You should be putting your money on a service that provides you with easy logistical integration to ensure smooth deliveries. Moreover, the space you select should be accessible for lorries for easy transportation.

9. Learn How to Find the Best Warehousing Service • Make no compromises over location. You have to understand that spending so much money on using a warehousing service does not make any sense if you do not choose its location correctly. How careful you are when selecting your location will determine how efficiently you can store and transport your equipment and products. The best thing is to select a warehousing service that is in close proximity to transport routes, such as motorways, shipping port, and railways. It becomes even more important to select a right location when you are a small business. In this case, the warehouse you choose should be near your target market. For a large business, the selected warehouse needs to be large enough to meet the demand as conveniently as possible. • Pay special attention to the overall size of the warehouse you select. The use of warehousing services makes no sense when you do not get enough space to store your equipment or products.

10. Learn How to Find the Best Warehousing Service • When checking the space, be sure to check the ceiling height of the warehouse you are going to select. It needs to be high enough to store your products in an efficient way, but keep in mind that if it is too high, it may only add to the costs of real estate, taxes, and utilities. • Be sure to select a warehousing service after considering the duration of storage. Some people opt for public warehouses and make it work for them. You may want to do the same in case you need some storage space for seasonal inventory. These warehouses work effectively for short-term storage, but you may not benefit from these if you need storage services for an extended duration. You will be better off going for contract warehousing service in this situation.

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