How can Digitization Transform Warehouse Checklists

Performing a warehouse daily operations checklist is a critical aspect to a facility working to be as efficient as possible with no accidents, damage or injuries. However, it is much easier said than done. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, fatalities remain above the national average for all industries. How can you utilize a warehouse daily operations checklist so you don’t become the next statistic? Let’s explore how a warehouse daily operations checklist can impact safety.

What is a Warehouse Operations Checklist?

A warehouse daily operations checklist is a series of questions to be asked each day to ensure areas within the facility are safe to enter and use. These areas can range from environmental aspects outside and inside the facility, equipment such as forklifts, floors and air ventilation to cleanliness. Each area can contain its own checklist or use one large checklist to be completed by workers each day or even each shift.

How to Prepare for the Warehouse Checklist Inspection

It’s always best to familiarize yourself with the environment you are inspecting. Start by taking a walk around the area you are responsible for. Is there anything that is not in good condition? Does anything appear to be broken, worn or in need of repair? This is to help you moving forward so each day you can better identify a problem before it occurs.

Areas to Check in a Warehouse Inspection

To list everything that needs to be inspected before use, you need checklists. When you add it all up, it can be quite long. This is where a warehouses daily operational checklist can come in. There are two types of checklists: paper-based and digital.

If you go the route of paper-based checklists, you can have an entire wall filled with binders for every aspect of the facility that needs to be OSHA compliant. For a warehouse manager to keep current with all of the information in each of the binders is a difficult task, especially if you are attempting to stay ahead of any issues.

Digitally transforming all of your paper-based inspection checklists is the right start. You get rid of all of those binders. However, that’s only 50% of the total solution. The other 50% is collecting the data and housing it in a portal or online digital telemetry Dashboard. Here, you will be able to analyze the data so you can make actionable decisions that immediately affect the safety and efficiency of your facility.

What Can a Digital Warehouse Operations Checklist Do?

The digital checklist includes all of the questions with (mostly) yes or no answers in order to be OSHA compliant. But what if you want to know more than what’s required? What if you need additional information collected? Or what if there is a special process and procedure that needs to be tracked to ensure proper operation? This is where the digital aspect of the solution is instrumental in data collection. In the Dashboard of the SIERA.AI S2 Digital Inspection system solution, you have the opportunity to:

• Add an unlimited amount of checklists at no additional cost
• Present questions as well as answers in a static or randomized order
• Graphically view the collected data at a high level with opportunities to dig deeper into the specific details.

The flexibility to build the checklists conforms to your organization rather than you fitting into the system software. This allows you to get the results you need in order to make informed decisions about your facility.

Notifications

If at any time a part of your facility fails an inspection, a notification will be sent. In the Dashboard, you can toggle the switch to receive notifications. Next, input the email address or addresses to get the notification. It can be a single email address or notify multiple people at the same time. This allows key individuals to get on top of the situation before it gets any worse.

Forklift Safety System Works too!

Now that you have your facility taken care of, you can use the same S2 Digital Inspection software to inspect your forklifts. Because it’s a moving vehicle, the forklift S2 Digital Inspection software comes with impact detection. This allows you to keep track of low, medium and high impacts so you can stay on top of safety issues as well.

What’s next? Contact us at sales@siera.ai to evaluate the SIERA.AI S2 Digital Inspection software solution.