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By Jeremy Wishart For employees throughout the material handling industry, safety is paramount. Working with and around heavy machinery on the job, industry employees come face to face with potentially daily hazards. To keep employees safe and ultimately keep material moving, it is critical that assembly operators follow safety procedures. Here are 10 Simple Tips to Help Safe Safe Forklift Operation 1. Inspection and maintenance of assemblies before use. Operators must complete a routine equipment check before driving them. Notify management of any damage or problem. For facilities using propane gas forklifts, the propane supplier will inspect the cylinders each...

By Jake Stewart Warehouse reception areas are some of the busiest places in a supply chain. Due to the variables involved with receiving, such as unknown personnel (truck drivers) in your warehouse, the irregularity of goods received, and changing storage needs after receiving the product, this area in any operation can be very difficult to standardize. . Amid the controlled chaos of a reception area, open dock doors that are not actively used to unload a truck pose particular risks to forklift operators and pedestrians. Lack of knowledge of open doors can lead to dangerous situations that could probably be...