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Loading Dock Safety

This document discusses loading dock safety. It notes that loading docks are dangerous areas that account for 10-25% of workplace injuries, including 14,600 injuries and 21 deaths in 2004. The top accident causes are trailer creep, unscheduled departures, landing gear collapse, doorways, visitors, and moving loads. The document recommends three key solutions to improve safety: using proper equipment to restrain and support trailers, providing training to operators, and establishing safe operating procedures, including for forklift use and housekeeping.

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Loading Dock Safety

This document discusses loading dock safety. It notes that loading docks are dangerous areas that account for 10-25% of workplace injuries, including 14,600 injuries and 21 deaths in 2004. The top accident causes are trailer creep, unscheduled departures, landing gear collapse, doorways, visitors, and moving loads. The document recommends three key solutions to improve safety: using proper equipment to restrain and support trailers, providing training to operators, and establishing safe operating procedures, including for forklift use and housekeeping.

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Loading Dock Safety

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Hazards of loading docks
 It’s dangerous out there

 21 died there in 2004

 5 forklift operators killed

 14,600 injuries

 10-25% of workplace injuries

 Serious injuries

2

Kinds of accidents
 Woman employee
slammed by
tractor trailer
 15-year-old
operated forklift
 Worker crushed
between vehicles

3

Loading dock safety audit
 Security

 Maintenance

 Accessories

 Housekeeping

4

Loading Docks & The Law
 Trailer restraint

 Fall protection

 Forklift operator training

 Exhaust emissions

5

Top accident causes
 Trailer creep

 Unscheduled departure

 Landing gear collapse

 Doorways

 Visitors

 Moving loads

 Poor housekeeping
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Solving Safety Problems

Three key solutions:


 Equipment

 Training

 Operating procedures

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Restraining trailers

Trailer restraints
 Bar type

 Wheel engagement

 Electrically operated

8

Chocking wheels

Wheel chocks – prevent trailer creep


 Low tech & effective
– Surface conditions
– Correct type of chock
 Hazards
– Chock placement
– Verifying use
– Enforcing use
– Vanishing chocks
9

Leveling dock
Dock Levelers:

 Form a bridge

 Allow height transition

 Mechanical style – engaged by operator

 Hydraulic style – push button


– Can be integrated with signaling device

10

Trailer support

Support jacks
 Landing gear not enough
 Less than 30-feet, use one T-frame jack

 Single axels downturn

 Inspect for damage, road fatigue

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Forklift use

Forklifts OSHA regs


 Only trained operators

 Lockout/tag out

 No riding lifts

 Only operator in trailer during unloading

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Dock working rules

Standard procedures:
Maintain equipment

No jerry rigging

Use physical barriers

Mark staging areas

Clean and debris-free

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Good housekeeping
Keep it neat and everything in its place
 Nothing on the floor

 Clean up spills

 Don’t block emergency equipment

 Put items away

 Cords and wires off floor

 Loose flooring, tripping hazards

 Trash disposal
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Dock safety rules
 Pay attention to signs & signals

 Watch where you’re going

 Walk, don’t run

 Hand tools, don’t throw

 No horseplay

 Keep your co-worker’s back

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Summary
 Traffic, visitors and materials create hazards

 Dock injuries tend to be serious

 Injury risk

 Supporting, restraining and leveling trailers

 Forklift dangers

 Good housekeeping habits

 Safety as a priority
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