At a dock the floor is shared by pallets, wheels and feet, and only one of those looks down.
Slips, trips and falls 10–15 min per run
A loading dock is the busiest floor in the building. Strapping, shrink wrap, broken boards and the edge itself are all on it, and everyone crossing is carrying something, driving something, or walking backwards.
This one is for dock staff, drivers and the warehouse teams working the aisles behind them. It takes the floor at its worst: mid unload, in traffic, with a trailer waiting.
One run, three parts. A team can go back to any of them as often as it needs, and most do.
A team walks the area while it is working and finds what is on the floor and what is moving across it.
They deal with strapping, wrap and broken boards during the unload instead of after it.
Somebody has to be near the dock edge with a trailer coming. They work out where to stand.
10–15 min per run
Included with every module
Put it on your shortlist and we go through it together, with nothing to decide yet.
Teams that meet this hazard usually meet the others on the same shift. The cluster page Slips, trips and falls holds all of them together.
Slips, trips and falls 5–10 min
Slips, trips and falls 10–15 min
Slips, trips and falls 5–10 min
Slips, trips and falls 10–20 min
Bring a dock your people work every day. We go through the training against it, end to end.