Companies, which operate loading docks, have specific legal obligations.

These include:

•  Restraining trailers, which are being loaded or unloaded at your dock.  This can be as simple and ineffective- as using wheel chocks; or as powerful as using electrically operated trailer restraints with light communication packages.  Using trailer restraints not only fulfills your legal obligations – it makes your loading docks more productive – and puts control of the dangerous loading and unloading situation in the hands of your dock workers – the folks most at risk

• Fall off protection: the empty dock door.    When loading docks are 48" high or higher – which is most of them – they  meet the legal definition of a platform – and when there is no trailer or closed door that dock location. OSHA requires that fall off protection be in place.  Chains stretched across an open door and dock do not meet this obligation.  They won't stop anything – not even people.
   
• Forklift operator training – since 1999 OSHA has required very specific forklift operator training.  This is one of the most commonly cited violations of OSHA.  If your operators are not trained – it's one of the most hazardous situations in your plant.  As of 1999 OSHA regulations, forklift operator training must include classroom training in 22 specific areas; site specific hazard training; and hands on observation of operators.  Ask us about our Forklift Operator Training and Train the Trainer programs to meet OSHA requirements

A whole range of products has been developed to deal with these obligation and safety hazards.