LSA0023 - Warehouse 101: Material Handling, and Storage
Course Description
FREE COURSE!
This course is designed to provide employees with strategies on how to safely move, handle, and store materials in a working warehousing environment. Safety principles and how to prevent workplace accidents and injuries will be covered. A material handling & storage training presentation will be shared and will apply to all types of workplace settings, with a focus on warehousing and distribution. The course is based on established training and procedural guidance from OSHA standards, Info Sheets, Fact Sheets, and other OSHA, CDC, and NIOSH materials.
Course Outline
- What should your employees know before moving, handling, and storing materials?
- What precautions should workers take when moving materials manually, or mechanically?
- Understand what safety measures employers should take regarding conveyors.
- Learn what precautions workers must take to avoid storage hazards.
- Understand what safeguards workers must follow when stacking materials.
- Learn about aisles and passageways safety.
- OSHA, CDC, and NIOSH recommended training and educational material.
Learner Outcomes
- Understand how training, education, and applying general safety principles such as proper work practices, equipment, and controls can help reduce workplace accidents involving the moving, handling, and storing of materials.
- Understand the proper techniques for preventing injuries when manually handling and storing material.
- Know the safety concerns and safe equipment operating techniques when mechanically handling and storing material.
- Understand the precautions that workers must take when sorting and stacking materials to not create hazards.
- Understand the hazards of working with conveyors and the safety measures to prevent injuries.
Notes
Harper College is a proud recipient of the OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grant which provides FREE training and education. Government employees are not eligible to participate due to grant regulations (Local/City/Municipality, County, State or Federal) unless, occupational health and safety training is part of the employee's job role.
The intended audience includes:
- Supervisors and Managers (of businesses with less than 250 employees)
- Employees and Workers (of businesses with less than 250 employees)
- Currently unemployed/displaced workers planning on returning to the workforce in the next three months.
- New Businesses (with less than 250 employees)
- Limited English Proficiency Workers
- Low Literacy Workers
- Young Workers
- Temporary Workers
- Minority and other hard-to-reach workers
- Workers in high-hazard industries with high fatality rates
- Government employees who are responsible for occupational safety and health duties at their agencies
Disclaimer: This material was produced under grant number SH000022SH3 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government.