Dock and racking safety awareness

Skills you'll practise

• Explain drive-away and vehicle creep, and the controls that stop a trailer moving during loading
• Check a loading position against the site checklist and stop when a control is missing
• Recognize racking damage, missing parts and missing load notices, and report them immediately
• Describe safe storage rules: within the load notice, stable stacking, clear aisles and no climbing
• Explain why engineered controls are more reliable than relying on people, and stay within your own authorization

Course outline

1. 1.Dock and racking safety awarenessVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Keeping trailers still: drive-away and creepLesson · 17 min
3. 3.Dock levelers, dockboards and the loading areaLesson · 14 min
4. 4.Racking: damage, load notices and safe storageLesson · 17 min
5. 5.Dock and racking safety awareness: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
6. 6.The gap at door 6Scenario
7. 7.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178: Powered industrial trucks, incl. (k) trucks and railroad cars (US federal example)
• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.26: Dockboards (US federal example)
• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.176: Handling materials, general (aisles, secure storage) (US federal example)
• OSHA: Warehousing hazards and resources
• HSE (UK): Site-based ways to stop vehicles from moving (drive-away and vehicle creep)
• HSE (UK): Loading areas
• HSE (UK) HSG76: Warehousing and storage, a guide to health and safety
• SEMA (UK Storage Equipment Manufacturers' Association): Guide to pallet racking inspections