Jerry Rudd

Health and Safety in Logistics (eBook, ePUB)

Assessing and Avoiding Risk in Warehousing and Transportation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Logistics is a complex industry that exposes employees to a whole variety of risks.

These include not only accidents on the road and deaths and injuries resulting from unsafe use of forklifts, but also the consequences of poor fire safety, long-term health risks due to poor manual handling technique and problems relating to mental health. Many thousands of incidents are recorded every year. This book examines each aspect of health and safety in turn, with a focus on warehousing and transportation.

Health and Safety in Logistics informs managers about potential hazards found in the industry and explains in detail how they can make the workplace as safe as possible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789663266
• Artikelnr.: 60092939

Autorenporträt

Jerry Rudd is a logistics consultant. He was formerly Logistics Manager at Gefco and Business Unit Director at Wincanton, working with Waitrose, Sainsbury's and British Airways.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
01: Introduction
The importance of health and safety; Chapter
02: Basic principles of health and safety; Chapter
03: Physical health issues; Chapter
04: Mental health; Chapter
05: Drug and alcohol issues; Chapter
06: Personal protection equipment; Chapter
07: Safe storage and warehouse layout; Chapter
08: Manual handling; Chapter
09: Materials handling equipment; Chapter
10: Fire safety; Chapter
11: Yard safety; Chapter
12: Vehicle loading; Chapter
13: Road vehicle specifications, maintenance and compliance; Chapter
14: Accident prevention during vehicle operations; Chapter
15: Transport of dangerous goods by road; Chapter
16: Vehicle mounted loading equipment; Chapter
17: Seafreight, rolling motorway and airfreight; Chapter
18: Miscellaneous issues; Chapter
19: Health and safety monitoring and audit