Pallets for Ergonomic Storage

Pallets for Ergonomic Storage

Pallets for Ergonomic Storage

Ergonomic technically refers to the relationship between humans and the manufactured environment the way in which that environment is made to ensure an easy human interaction. The ergonomics of individual environments, then, refer to the ways in which those environments make the lives of the people working in them as easy and intuitive as possible. In terms of warehousing, an environment heavy with personal risk and mobility issues, palletsplay a very important role in ensuring easy human interaction with the items being used.

The items used in a warehouse are, of course, as different from warehouse to warehouse as people are different to other people, or trees in a forest differ from place to place. Warehouses store all sorts of stuff some light, some heavy, some bulky, some awkwardly shaped. The ergonomics of warehousing requires some way of standardising the storage of all that stuff so that, no matter what the actual item being stored might be, the people who are employed to store it (and, just as importantly, to move it around the warehouse) can do so with relative ease. Pallets are an excellent, indeed, the excellent, way of doing this.

First of all, pallets are flat. That means they can themselves be stored with absolute ease. It also means, though, that they can convert previously non flat objects into objects where at least one full face is capable of being laid level. One puts one's items on the flat surface provided, and one's items automatically gain a flat surface. Flat surfaces are obviously a prerequisite for successful storage they ensure no wasted space between object and shelf or floor. Furthermore, using modern pallets, a warehouse operator can "cap" a pallet with a second one so there's one at the bottom, and one on top, like a lid which gives a flat top to lay the next lot on.

A warehouse is a dangerous place, full of heavy objects, small scale industrial machinery (fork lift trucks, for example) and shelving. Heavy objects slide and fall, shelving topples, and industrial machinery runs feet over or knocks people down particularly when it is loaded and the operator cannot see in front of him or her self. Modern pallets take all of this into account they're light weight, usually made from a non-breakable material like toughened plastic, and they are free from sharp edges or abrasive surfaces. These are all considerations that promote the best possible ergonomics in a warehouse situation by, as far as possible, minimising the risk to warehouse workers.

Pallets used to be made of things like wood or steel not good, when one considers the injuries people can suffer from splintered wood or fracture metal. Plastic is also easier to manufacture, vac forming being what it is which means the cost of using modern pallets is much less than its old school counterpart.

Overall, then, pallets bring down costs, lessen the risk of worker injury, and improve mobility and storage which is why they are used in pretty much every warehouse in the UK.

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