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Started in China in December in the last year, the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus has affected everything across the world. All of the public and private establishments, except essential services like grocery, media, health, and police, are closed to contain the spread of COVID u2013 19. Everyone engaged in any of essential services needs to be more careful for themselves and others.
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5 Warehouse Processes That You Need To Keep Safe From COVID-19 Started in China in December in the last year, the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus has affected everything across the world. All of the public and private establishments, except essential services like grocery, media, health, and police, are closed to contain the spread of COVID – 19. Everyone engaged in any of essential services needs to be more careful for themselves and others. Logistics, which includes warehousing, is a part of those necessary services. As a storehouse manager, you need to ensure the safety of products you deal and the staff’s health to maintain the supply of critical goods in the market so that people can live their life in this global pandemic. Here are the storehouse processes where you need to implement safety measures:
1. Receipt Till now, health scientists are not clear on the spread of coronavirus via packages, particularly one that shipped a few weeks ago. According to a study, coronavirus can live up to 24 hours on cardboards and 3-4 days on plastic and steel. In spite of no clear evidence, you should disinfect the package before you store it in your depository. Further, clearly instruct staff to wash their hands before unloading a package from the carrier. 2. Storing As a health conscious storekeeper, you must consider all the equipment, whether it is lifting truck scanner, and even pen, a carrier of coronavirus. It would be far better to disinfect all these tools before you start using them for
placing packages on the racks of your warehouse. For effective disinfection, spray the solution with 70% alcohol content. 3. Retrieval It is a critical process, which is carried out for the delivery of goods on a client’s request. In this process, most of businesses have to engage around 60% staff. As per the safety guidelines, maintaining a distance in human contact is effective to contain the spread of this new virus. To ensure that your retrieval process is healthy and safe, instruct all the people engaged in retrieval to wear gloves. With it, there will be no spread of this virus on the parcel going to be loaded. Further, it will keep your staff safe from virus attack. 4. Packaging It is more crucial process, as it involves a direct human contact with the products. First of all, do disinfection of the container you are going to use in packing goods for transit. Thereafter, direct your staff to put gloves on their hands before touching goods for packaging. Whether you disinfect packaging material or ask staff for disinfect their hands, ensure the use of high-grade solution containing more 60% alcohol. 5. Dispatching In this process, a team of a few members does paper work and telephonic conversation. Here, ensure that there is enough gap between employees who are engaged in dispatching work. Conclusion The proverb Precaution is better is better than cureis absolutely true in the ongoing situation. Your care during warehousing and transit process can help you keep your staff as well as others safe from COVID-19. If you are looking for cargo logistics services, get in touch with a professional freight forwarding company in your locality.