This course covers safe stacking techniques for products, ensuring proper methods to prevent damage and minimise health and safety risks.
Course outline
- Legal requirements
- A safe work system
- Floors and supporting surfaces
- Stock holding structures
- Pallet construction and loading
- Position, size and shape of stacks
- Stability and bonding of stacks
- Unsafe stacking
- Segregation of stock
- Materials handling equipment
- General issues in stacking and storage
- De-stacking rules
- Safe lifting techniques
- Injury prevention