Safe stacking and storage training

Overloaded racking, unstable stacks, blocked aisles and chemicals stored next to the wrong materials can turn a store into one of the most dangerous areas on site. These risks build up slowly, often because space is tight and stock keeps arriving.

Many businesses also need to stack beyond the standard legal limits. That can be allowed, but only with an exemption from the Department of Employment and Labour, and an application without sound practices in place is likely to be refused. This course gives your team the principles and controls behind safe stacking, so your storage areas hold up to an inspection.

1. Legal and general risks. What the law requires for stacking, and the common causes of stacking and storage incidents.
2. Principles of stacking. Stability, height, loading, and stacking different types of material.
3. Storage facility management. Layout, aisles, racking, inspections and housekeeping.
4. Handling of hazardous chemical substances. Separating, storing and handling chemicals and flammables in a store.

• Warehouse, stores and dispatch staff
• Forklift and materials-handling supervisors
• Warehouse and logistics managers
• SHEQ (safety, health, environment and quality) practitioners
• Health and safety representatives and SHE committee members for storage areas

A BMS Holdings certificate of attendance and a stacking and storage inspection checklist to use in their own area.

• Workplace Housekeeping: keeping storage and work areas in order
• Hazardous Chemical Substances: chemical storage and handling in depth
• Workplace Safety for Supervisors: controlling risk on the floor
• Workplace risk assessments: we assess storage risks as part of a site assessment