Does your office need a ‘spring clean’? 1. What Safety incidents involving office shelving are a persistent problem: entire shelving units falling away from the wall; equipment falling off shelves and injuring staff; and overloaded shelving shearing off mounting screws! 2. Why Incident root causes are simple and fall into two categories: Failure to correctly mount shelving, for example into non load bearing walls; and Over loading shelves with books, papers and equipment. 3. Learning Are shelves in YOUR office overloaded? do they need tidying or pose a fire hazard? Where new shelving is required consider free standing bookcases. If shelves are erected ensure you use competent staff - usually from your site’s estates or operations teams. Further detail can be obtained from your local SHE Group