Warehouse Safety

There’s a lot going on out there with materials handling and the supply chain, so we did some looking around and came up with five startups with novel approaches to materials handling and the supply chain, they include two packaging innovations, drones for monitoring inventory, a new approach to safety and a 3D printing platform that focuses on minimalism in the supply chain.

The total cost of workplace injuries in 2020 amounted to $163.9 billion and there were 2.7 billion nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses reported that year alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In this Fall 2022 edition of the Industrial Athlete Workforce Report, we took an in-depth look at the safety landscape across essential U.S. industries from the perspective of Industrial Athletes living it every day, polling more than 600 active workers.

In this educational and informative white paper we discuss improving the safety of your warehouse team with industry best practices.

A new software application from Zebra Technologies helps warehouse operators, manufacturers, and other employers improve social distancing compliance and contact tracing while maintaining employee privacy.

Think Safety - More than 145,000 people work in over 7,000 warehouses - The fatal injury rate for the warehousing industry is higher than the national average for all industries.

The week after the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began an investigation into a death at the Amazon warehouse in Carlisle, OSHA cited five companies in the death of another Amazon warehouse worker in New Jersey.