1. 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