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May 2026
Warehouse Safety
Warehouse workers face many potential hazards and risks. From mobile equipment to industrial storage racking to manual materials handling to slips, trips, and falls; it's important for workers, supervisors, and employers to understand how they can minimize these risks in the workplace. Find resources to help you improve productivity, reduce disruptions, and increase awareness to protect your workers.
Basic Training
Course
This course is designed to provide learners with the knowledge to recognize, assess, and control hazards related to industrial robot and collaborative applications.
Course
Your storage racking system can influence productivity throughout the entire logistics chain. Steel storage racks are common equipment in industries such as distribution centres, warehouses, manufacturing plants, and the storage area of retail operations. This workshop for managers, supervisors, inspection teams, and workers, identifies inherent hazards associated with storage racks and provides best practices for effective installation, maintenance and repair to prevent incidents, injuries, lost time and unforeseen expenses.
Course
Warehouse Safety is an awareness-level course that helps recognize potential hazards in the warehouse workplace and learn how to prevent risks. It will help learners understand their responsibilities for general safety principles, safe stacking and material storage, pallet safety, industrial storage racking safety, mobile equipment and pedestrian safety, and loading dock safety.
Videos & Webinars
Working with machines presents opportunities for safely improving productivity. New, collaborative applications bring worker and robot into closer proximity, introducing a host of new benefits— and potential hazards.
Warehouse SafetyHealth and Safety Resources and Tools
Toolbox Talk
It is important to recognize what is a serious injury so that you can comply with Worker Compensation Act (WCA) requirements. From reporting to securing the scene, this Toolbox Talk reviews some key characteristics and provides next steps of what to do.
Toolbox Talk
Forklifts are an underrated hazard that exists in most food processing and manufacturing companies. The reason that we have specific regulations for forklift training and certification is that forklifts have caused more fatalities than all other mobile equipment combined. The reason for the complacency around forklifts is that they are compact and their rear-wheel steering […]
Toolbox Talk
Storage racking is only designed to support a specific rated capacity of load and certain design of pallets. Using the wrong pallet or exceeding the rated capacity can cause damage and possibly cause the storage racking to collapse.
Toolbox Talk
Storage racks are common in industry. Racks used to store materials have inherent risks. Poor maintenance can result in serious injuries and death. Ensure your storage racks are correctly designed, installed, used, and maintained. Understand the hazards of racking to prevent incidents, injuries, lost time, and costs.
This new bulletin helps employers understand their responsibilities and control risk.
Toolbox Talk
We lift, handle, and carry objects as part of work and our daily living. There is no legal threshold limiting what weight you can lift. At what point have you decided that lifting a specific item by yourself would NOT be a good idea? Have you ever been taught the right way to lift a load? Do you know the dos and don’ts for lifting?
Toolbox Talk
Manual materials handling is handling items by lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying, holding, or restraining. It is the most common cause of occupational fatigue and lower back injuries. Three quarters of Canadians whose job includes manual handling suffer from back injury at some point. Many are unable to return to their jobs and some are […]
Guidebook
Mobile equipment is defined as “a wheeled or tracked vehicle which is engine or motor powered, together with attached or towed equipment, but not a vehicle operated on fixed rails or tracks”. This type of equipment normally operates within the boundaries of a workplace property and it is the responsibility of the employer to develop […]
Toolbox Talk
Both manual and electric pallet jacks have similar risks: workers can be injured if hands and feet get into the pinch point of the machine. However, electric pallet jacks have an electric propulsion system (aka self-propelled and motor-powered), which introduces new and different risks. Use this Toolbox Talk to discuss what hazards, risks, and preventative actions may be in place at your workplace to increase electric pallet jack safety.
Toolbox Talk
A pallet jack is the most basic form of forklift and is intended to move pallets in a warehouse or trailer setting. They can be either operated manually or electrically. You must be trained and authorized before you use a pallet jack.
Conference Session
Explore the critical aspects of racking and stacking hazards in the warehouse in this engaging session. Learn how to assess risks, identify common hazards, and understand the regulatory requirements for your business. Discover best practices to control the risk and ensure safety in your warehouse operations. Understand how to use regular risk assessments to identify […]
Toolbox Talk
Driving in aisleways and racking systems, loading, and unloading pallets from racking systems, etc. require additional skills for forklift operators. It's important to take measures to ensure that the forklift operators do not strike or damage the racking system—and potentially cause injury.
Associate Member
As a MSABC Member – receive up to 15% off with Konstant/Johnston Equipment. Racking and Systems – Choose from a wide variety of racking, accessories and systems – including pallet, high density, cantilever, mezzanines and more. Design & Engineering – Reduce last-mile costs, increase fulfillment center resilience and automate your warehouse with a customized, […]
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Are your employees working in the cold? Understand and address the risks to avoid injury.
January 11, 2024
With cold temperatures and winter conditions on the horizon, employers have an obligation to keep workers safe from winter-weather hazards. As the temperatures drop, workers in unheated (or refrigerated) areas of your facility – or whose work takes them outside,...
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