Assessing and Facilitating Warehouse Safety

Running Head: ASSESSING AND FACILITATING WAREHOUSE SAFETY
Assessing and facilitating warehouse safety
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.................................................................................................................................2
2. Purpose........................................................................................................................................2
3. Literature review..........................................................................................................................3
4. Methodology................................................................................................................................6
5. Findings.......................................................................................................................................9
6. Research limitations...................................................................................................................12
7. Practical implications.................................................................................................................13
8. Originality..................................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................15

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1. Introduction
The paper mainly assess as well as facilitates warehouse safety as it is considered to be
important for both the employees as well as firms. It is identified that globally around 5330
fatalities as well as 960,000 workers get injured due to workplace accidents therefore it is very
much necessary to review number of papers to investigate the safety of the workplace. Safety is
generally considered to be significant within the logistics service industry as information and
data from the year 2014 helps in indicating that the warehousing sector of U.S accounts for
second highest number of issues as well as fatalities. Therefore, it is quite important to focus on
the safety behaviour as well as safety culture. It is found that safety culture is mainly integrated
with number of observable safety culture.
The paper mainly discusses the purpose of assessing as well as facilitating warehouse
safety and discusses the methodology that is utilized for evaluating the importance of warehouse
safety. The paper also identifies findings as well as research limitations properly. In addition to
this, the paper also helps in offering practical implications as well as originality of the paper.
2. Purpose
The main purpose of the paper is to undertake proper investigation so that the warehouse
safety can be properly assessed as well as facilitated. As workplace safety is considered to be
important for both the firms as well as employees of the organization therefore the main focus in
on the safety behaviour as well as on the safety culture in warehouses (Hofstra, Petkova,
Dullaert, Reniers, & de Leeuw, 2018). Thus, it is quite necessary to integrate a sum of factors
which must be a proxy for the quantity, presence, proper system for safety management, safety
software, safety practices as well as safety communication.

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3. Literature review
Academic research on logistic based safety is mainly focussed on the concept of
transportation. The studies generally help in investigating various characteristics of professional
drivers as well as stressors for relating the safety behaviour or accidents. According to (Ding et
al., 2016), the factors that are helpful for the warehouse safety are generally identified as they are
helpful in reducing hazard as well as various types of safety specific transformational based
leadership which further helps in creating large influence on the safety of the warehouse.
Additionally, they also find proper safety consciousness that do not properly mediate the impact
of SSTL on the safety of the warehouse. It is stated by (Peninsula et al., 2016) that harmful
materials generally have proper standards in order to store so that they can be set with the help of
the legislation for minimizing the potential hazards. It is found that this type of storage standards
must be allowed thoroughly and therefore the various number of hazards generally act as one of
the input for the entire procedure of proper risk management.
According to (J. et al., 2016), outside the warehouse, hazardous substance must be
properly stored 5-10 m of distance as per the grouping of various types of materials that are quite
hazardous. It is found that segregation generally means the storage in the proper area of storage
but the products which have different classes can be seprated from one another with the help of
barriers or gaps. Exceptions related to the case where various types of storage regulations like
regulations related with explosives, flammable substances are observed quite effectively.
Moreover, segregation storage within proper storage area are generally required. Moreover,
proper labelling of various chemical based substances is considered as one of the major issue as
it is considered as most visible based communication tools. This label is generally considered as