A safe, efficient and orderly warehouse is crucial to business success. Warehouses are vital, but they can also be dangerous — because they are a centre of activity with a flurry of circulating goods and moving vehicles, they usually have a higher potential for accidents than other areas with more limited functions. Improving warehouse safety can have a positive effect, streamlining your entire organisation. Slips and trips plague all sorts of workplaces, and warehouses are no exception. The main cause of slips is a wet or contaminated floor. In warehouses, things like water, oil, cleaning products, dry powders and food can all make the floor more slippery. You can eliminate a significant portion of your warehouse’s slip risk by maintaining your equipment, since properly maintained equipment will not leak onto the floor, according to USI Insights.
This article was first published in the February 1st 2024 issue of Warehouse & Logistics News, subscribe to the magazine by clicking here.
A complimentary safety and maintenance survey for warehouse line marking has been launched by inotec UK. Designed to provide advice on essential health and safety requirements of line marking, it also covers upkeep of existing markings and replacement lines. Once the site survey is complete, drawing up plans and scheduling the project can be finalised.
CG Flooring recently worked with 3 clients across the UK, in Southampton, Rotherham, and Chesterfield. Each client required a floor compliant with AutoStore™ specifications to ensure the smooth operation of the robots running on their modular-based, automated storage and retrieval system. CG Flooring assessed the results of the survey and carried out corrective grinding on the three floors to comply with the Autostore flooring specification.
Innovation is key to cost effective, performance solutions and the AFT®+09/60HE steel fibre from Twintec is a prime example. The fibre allows for more cost-efficient designs whilst enhancing the performance and quality of SFRC, achieved by providing a steel fibre with a high tensile strength and good hook-end anchorage. Beam testing incorporating the AFT®+09/60HE was carried out by Hanson QLD using a standard and readily available flooring mix, to demonstrate that the tested performance is relative to the in-use applications.
After successfully installing a heavy-duty resin screed in their agricultural workshops in Canterbury, Haynes Ford contacted GSS Flooring to install the same resin floor system in their extremely busy commercial workshops in Maidstone. With over 1000m²of old, oil-contaminated concrete to treat in a workshop that operated double shifts, both day and night, the only time this could be achieved was to split the area into half and complete the works during a very tight time schedule over Christmas and the New Year. Each phase was both shot-blasted and mechanically ground to remove as much of the surface contamination as possible.
It is encouraging to witness the variety of flooring being installed, helping warehouses stay efficient and safe.
George Simpson
Features Editor
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