Practical Guidelines for Post-Pandemic Warehouse Operations

Getting Back to Work

As warehouses and distribution centers resume operations, they face a confluence of challenges in safely staffing those operations, meeting aggressive deadlines, whittling down the backlog, and complying with new safety regulations.

Supply chain organizations will need to define their post-pandemic protocols under these new conditions and expectations.

While warehouse environments are not characteristically crowded spaces, there are several bottlenecks that should be reviewed to safeguard personnel and minimize the risk of transmission.

Failure to do so risks employee health and potential future stop-work orders should a contagion spread through a facility’s workforce.

The reopening measures that follow address short-term physical distancing standards spanning physical, logical, and operational considerations.

However, the lessons learned through this disruption to standard practice is likely to set new benchmarks in health and safety.

We can expect that future warehouse design will reflect the precedent set by this post-pandemic model.

Download this paper on Practical Guidelines for Post-Pandemic Warehouse Operations and find out why.