Warehouse Striping Marietta GA

Increase safety and reduce the efficiency of your warehouse. Giving proper thought to how you are going to mark your warehouse, and how you will use those markings as part of your operational strategy will help you to get the most bang for your buck when you next upgrade your striping.

In this blog post, we’ll go over some of the ways in which warehouse striping can benefit your business. This includes ways that it can impact safety, help to improve organization and even employee morale at your company. Afterward, we’ll take a look at the 5S method, a popular organizational strategy used by businesses to keep their facilities running at an optimal level.

Safety

One big advantage of striping on floors is flow control. Just like markings on the roads let drivers know what maneuvers are and aren’t safe, markings on a warehouse floor can keep forklift operators and other staff moving in a way that minimizes accidents. This includes not only reducing the possibility of collisions with each other, but ensuring that proper distance is kept from items which could be damaged from collision. Floor markings are also often used to indicate areas that are dangerous or otherwise should not be occupied for lengthy periods of time, for example, areas near exits or exit pathways that need to be kept clear for fire safety reasons.

Old markings that have been painted over can often cause confusion if the layout of the markings has changed. A proper installation will involve using a process like shot blasting to completely remove the previous striping before laying down the new paint. This will make sure that none of the previous material remains to distract your employees from where they or your materials and machinery should be. Be aware that shot blasting can leave a mild, but permanent marking on the floor. If you have a short term lease, this might not be the best option for you.

Organization

A warehouse operates most efficiently when everyone can find what they are looking for quickly. Organization, of course, comes after safety. You do not want to sacrifice the safety of your layout in order to operate more efficiently. Injured employees or damaged equipment are not worth the marginal increase in efficiency you would get from a layout optimized to put efficient organization ahead of safety.

One of the key strategies of organization in a warehouse is to adopt a lean storage methodology. The most common implementation of this is the 5S method that we will be discussing later. While planning out your striping, you should include these steps as part of your strategy. You do not want to spend money putting permanent or semi-permanent markings down and then lean out your inventory and realize that it is no longer efficient because you have reduced your inventory.

Each business is unique. You know which items are typically retrieved at the same time. Try to group these types of items as closely as possible so that your staff will be able to retrieve them with minimal effort. Ensure that your markings allow for proper and easily routed traffic between the sections to further ensure that they are operating as efficiently as they can.

Aesthetics

It might not seem all that important to have a warehouse that is aesthetically pleasing, but it is still beneficial to a company. Not only does it leave a good impression if potential business partners, or even customers, find themselves in the warehouse for some reason, but keeping an aesthetic facility means keeping it clean and well maintained. Employee morale is greatly improved when they can see that their workspace is being cared for by management. This is perhaps especially important for warehouse workers, whose days can be tedious and are often spent in otherwise uncomfortable conditions.

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