Warehouse Safety:
A Practical Guide to
Preventing Warehouse Incidents and Injuries

By George Swartz, CSP

Softcover, Index, 355 pages, 1999
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Because warehouses typically contain no dangerous machines or high-risk operations, employers and employees often develop a false sense of safety and security. However, the National Safety Council reports that 10 to 25 percent of all workplace injuries occur at warehouse loading docks, and OSHA estimates that approximately 100 people die each year while operating powered industrial trucks. In his new book, Warehouse Safety: A Practical Guide to Preventing Warehouse Incidents and Injuries, author George Swartz helps warehouse management proactively develop formal safety programs and reduce the number of safety incidents and losses that incur in the warehouse environment.

Written for safety professionals, warehouse managers, human resource personnel, safety committee members, and supervisors in every industry, Warehouse Safety begins with an introduction to warehouse safety; it discusses such topics as the nature of warehouse operations, high hazard areas, and safety statistics; and it then examines the components of an effective safety program, including meetings, job safety observation, and safety incentives.

Warehouse Safety focuses on the high hazard situations and work areas present in warehouses and the equipment and training that managers should invest in to prevent injuries and losses. Swartz addresses such preventative measures as fixed fire systems and fire safety, materials storage, handrailing and ladders, employee training, methods for lockout/tagout procedures, dock hazards and safeguards, and more.