Warehouse markings help improve the safety and functionality of your warehouse.
Most warehouse environments include pedestrian and fork lift traffic. Some warehouses even include vehicle traffic such as delivery trucks, golf carts, scissor lifts, and transport vehicles. All of these combined can lead to a very hectic and even dangerous work environment.
Floor striping is benefical in making a hectic work area a safe work area. Separating the pedestrian walking lanes from the vehicle lanes is significant to protect humans from machines. It’s important to ensure that employees and customers can move through the warehouse safely without stopping production. It’s also important that drivers and machine operatiors are clear of the boundaries allowing them to easily distinguish where they can drive and where they cannot drive.
Floor striping is also beneficial when making a fire escape plan. If a fire occurs every one in the warehouse needs to know the exact direction to exit the building. Clearly marked lanes to the exits make that possible. There isn’t time for confusion when it comes to evacuating a building because of a fire. The same goes for any disaster.
Another very important aspect of a warehouse work environment is knowing exactly where the fire extinguishers are located. Clearly marked red striping around all of the fire extinguishers along with signage can be helpful and can even save lives.
Clearly marked product staging areas is important to fork lift drivers and for inventory purposes. Along with painting support poles. Safety should always be priortity #1 when working in a warehouse but we also know that production is very important so sometimes we may get in a hurry and lean towards production over safety. It’s important to make sure that forklift drivers have a clear path to prevent any casualties or structural damage. Painting poles and corners of storage racks are beneficial to forklift and scissor lift operators.
Markings may include but not limited to:
- Safety and Directional Arrows
- Stop Bars
- Fork Lift Lanes and Emergency Evacuation Routes
- Hashed Areas
- Caution Zones
- Walking Lanes
- Product Stalls or Pick lanes
- Fire Escape Lanes
- Fire Extinguisher Locations
Floor striping can save a company millions of dollars in damages and clearly maked areas can prevent injuries within the work place. Imagine the cost that could incur from a forklift colliding with a storage rack damaging hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise plus the down time for clean up and rebuild. Even worse, imagine the heartache of an employee or a customer being hit buy a forklift or a fallen shelf plus the cost of medical bills that could also incur with such a tragedy.
A clearly marked warehouse exemplifies safety and a professional environment. I creates a safe workplace for your employees and shows your customers that their product is in good hands and being handled in the most professional manner.
Prior to striping/painting. the floor needs to be thoroughly cleaned preferrably twice to ensure proper and long lasting adhesion.
Contact Atlanta Paving Solutions for all of your Warehouse Striping needs.
