Three Steps You Can Take To limit Horseplay

3rd May 2019

Question: How can I limit horseplay amongst the forklift operators in my warehouse?

Horseplay is a very serious safety violation and can be a source of fatal accidents in the warehouse. Well, there are three steps you can follow to ensure that the vice is tamed. Let's take a look at them;

Revise Your Safety Policy

If horseplay is rife in your warehouse then it is a pointer that you need to clarify certain aspects of your safety policy through a revision. Therefore, you should revise your safety policy to ensure that you clearly outline the specific regulations that touch on horseplay.

The policy should, most importantly, outline some of the major penalties that operators who engage in the vice will suffer. Once you close this loophole you are at a much better position to bring this vice to an end.

Hold Awareness Workshops

After you are done revising the safety policy you should ensure that each stakeholder gets an opportunity to interact with it's revised form. The best way to do this is by holding an awareness workshop that will bring all the stakeholders together.

During the workshop, you can highlight all the hazards that can result from the vice and draw a picture using real data. You should also consider these workshops as an opportunity for a retraining to ensure all the safety grey areas are covered.

In-house Safety Ambassadors

Even though having a clearly defined safety policy in place is important you should be aware that rules tend to be forgotten. For this reason, you need to come up with a mechanism that will see to it that they are re-emphasized.

One of the best ways to do this is by using in-house safety ambassadors who will act as information points for the safety policy. These in-house safety ambassadors should be your operator's peers and individuals they highly respect.

The work of the in-house ambassadors will be to call out the vice every time other operators are engaging in it to ensure safety is preserved. They will also be very vital for pointing out any violation of these rules and providing a review for improving the policy to make it more effective.

Conclusion

Therefore, if you have operators who keep engaging in this vice you can easily tame it by following these steps. First, you need to ensure that you have a revised safety policy in place that addresses horseplay in great detail.

Afterward, you have to hold workshops to create awareness about the revised policy so that every stakeholder is aware. Finally, choose an in-house team that is going to be your safety ambassadors to build upon the awareness and re-emphasize on the safety policy. 

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