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No employer wants to see people injured or unwell. Lost time due to illness or injury is disruptive and expensive. Furthermore, lost time accidents and illnesses affect the cost of health insurance. Employers have two reasons to be eager to maintain wellness, one is economic and the other is simply a matter of doing the right thing.
Start with safety. Warehouses are not the safest places to work. The good news is that material handling accidents are predictable, and the data will tell us where they are most likely to occur. Technology has provided ways to prevent workplace injuries.
The the covid pandemic showed why there must be an effort to keep warehouse workers healthy. While a “pallet in/pallet out” operation keeps workers on fork trucks and reduces the risk of spreading infection, other tasks such as packaging place workers in close quarters and increase the risk. The warehousing industry has responded by cleaning and sanitizing workplaces.
Both cleaning practices and safety are based on the same need. In a time of talent shortage, it is simply good business to be sure that every worker in the warehouse is healthy and safe. That is why wellness must receive close management attention.
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