Overview
The Able online eLearning Rack Safety Awareness course is unique, as there are no other Rack Safety Awareness Training products available 24/7 offering complete flexibility to organisations and their users.
The course has been designed based on our tried and tested on site course. The platform uses industry inspection methodology and is designed to train internal workers to understand matters such as legislation, safe working load notices, loading clearances, damage levels – measuring damage, how to record it + so much more.
This course is not a replacement for the accredited racking inspection, which you should have (as a minimum) annually. These inspections should always be carried out by an industry competent and experienced person. Many companies with large scale warehouses (based on risk assessment) will have more regular accredited inspections.
Features & Benefits
No need to send external trainers to site – Sustainability & Environmental benefits, most Warehouse/Logistics companies are 24/7 or have employees working different shift patterns, therefore is very difficult to arrange training during a 9 — 5 working day, the eLearning provides flexibility to Log in/out at any time, hence being able to prioritise work tasks.
Not having to bring employees to one location for training saves time and money, we recently worked with a company who have 75x depots and each manager within the branch took the course online rather than bringing them to head office saving time away from their own daily work tasks and travel costs.
The course gives you the ability to immediately train new starters (potentially Agency employees may have no previous racking experience) to gain a basic knowledge of systems used to help them identify their new working environment.
Monitor operatives use/results on completion and provide data to support where further training is required.
There is a Management Dashboard available which supply’s companies with additional information on courses completed, time results etc:- this is available with any orders of 11+ courses.
You can Identify & report damage early using the methodology provided in the training, this will eliminate minor damage becoming major damage, thus assist the operation being proactive, saving time & resource replacing damage early rather than “offloading” sections of the warehouse which will minimise the working capacity of the areas involved.
The eLearning course is designed to make your workers PRRS’s (Persons responsible for Rack Safety) based in the warehouse, able to recognize dangers and/or when to offload and isolate an area should an incident occur.
The course offers an understanding of the effects of making changes to the storage structure and what each component does and what damage limits are related to each component / area.
Course Accreditation
Able Racking Training are proud to have achieved ROSPA Assurance Accreditation, which allows you to know that the Course Content is relevant and pitched at the correct level for the persons taking the course.
How the elearning course works
Presentations are broken down into individual 5 modules as follows:
Introduction
All About Racking
Safety
Racking Damage (including completing Damage reports)
Understanding Rack Safety
At the end of each module there is a bite size multiple choice quiz.
At the end of module 5 there is a test which provides a score out of 100%.
The pass rate is
85%
On completion of the course and if the minimum pass rate is achieved, the individual taking the course will receive a certificate with the test result and named as a ‘Person Responsible for Racking Safety’.
Duration of course, average 1.5 hours, continual.
Note: The training must be completed within 5 days from commencement.
Content Includes
RACK SAFETY LEGISLATION AND GUIDANCE
USER’S RESPONSIBILITY
RACK SAFETY INSPECTION HOW OFTEN AND BY WHOM
DAMAGE CONTROL PROCEDURES
INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENT TYPES OF PALLET RACKING
IDENTIFICATION OF RACKING COMPONENTS
SAFE WORKING CLEARANCES
INCIDENT ACTION
LOAD NOTICES
TICK SHEET FOR INSPECTIONS
WHO AND WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THE ELEARNING COURSE?
HR Departments
HR Department’s will use the eLearning course. Sometimes new employees or agency staff in warehouses may have never even seen a pallet racking system before, so the course is an excellent part of company induction for new starters beginning their journey, also being eLearning it is available immediately rather than waiting to book new employees into a class room training session or Live Training Session which would may not be available immediately and possibly not to suit.
Training Departments
Training Department’s will use this course as it is flexible eLearning and covers racking, a high risk and major part of a business, which will be used by many employees as part of their daily tasks in the warehouse/distribution centre.
Health & Safety Departments
Health & Safety Department’s will use this course as it is equipping people to not only understand the dangers from racking systems, but how to keep themselves and their colleagues safe by providing full understanding of the nuances of the storage systems.
NB: if there was an incident on site a Health & Safety investigation would take place and one of the first things they would investigate is how the racking is managed/and damage reported/replaced.
Finance Departments
Finance Department’s will find great benefits from investing in this course.
The fact that racking damage could be spotted early and repaired/replaced at the earliest, could be the difference between one component in the structure needing to be replaced rather than a whole bay being out of service, which will save a lot of money and could help to provide budgets for repairs assisting when looking at the capex required for holistic warehouse remedials.
Warehouse /Facilities Managers
Warehouse /Facilities Manager’s will find this course a great benefit, as damage identified early and issues eradicated, results in potential damage not becoming so “unsafe to use” or “red risk” that a particular area of the racking cannot continue to be used and having to be off loaded completely.
Should areas require offload completely, there could in instances of lead times for components up to 10/12 weeks depending on the manufacturer, therefore time and cost savings if damage is identified earlier.
Also, should changes have been made internally to the racking system, they can be checked to ensure that they have been made safely to continue to use the area.
Environmental Managers
Environmental Manager’s will benefit as rather than having to send employees to other locations for training, having training delivered online will helps towards Carbon Footprint reduction.
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Management Dashboard
Designed for larger companies, allowing them to add their own users and manage progress after purchasing multiple licenses.