Light Your Way to a More Efficient Loading Dock
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The loading dock, of course, is an extremely vital material handling area of a business that ships by truck or trailer. It’s essential that the loading dock and its workers function quickly and with high efficiency. Having the right dock safety equipment plays a key role. A dock area that’s not as safe as it could be, apart from the injury risk to workers, is also not as efficient as it could be. Take a moment to read the following article about a way to make your dock area safer, better functioning and, as a consequence, a more profitable part of your business.
Loading docks, due to the huge size and weight of the trucks pulling in and out, are clearly potentially dangerous areas if they’re lacking proper safety devices and other equipment. They also can be a drain on profits, by way of the very-often-true “time is money” adage, if, due to a lack of the right equipment, trucks enter and leave the loading dock at a snail’s pace and linger in the dock area during a needlessly long loading/unloading periods.
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A key part of the solution to these two potential problems is installing high-quality sets of
traffic signal dock lights. The
traffic dock light looks very much like and performs the same dual purpose as regular street traffic lights: they protect people and property, and they regulate traffic in an orderly and efficient way. Efficiency of traffic movement on streets reduces driver impatience; efficiency of traffic movement in loading docks saves businesses money.
Each
traffic dock light set can be manually operated by one of your dock workers or can be automatic. Choose whichever type makes the most sense for your loading dock’s operation, taking into account its physical size, its level of traffic, and the number of dock workers typically on shift at once.
For optimum dock safety and efficiency, you’ll require at least two sets of
traffic signal lights – one for traffic entering and leaving the dock, and one for traffic within the dock area. If your loading dock area is large and often very busy, extra sets of exterior and interior lights would be a smart move – both for added safety as well and enabling your dock area to operate more smoothly and rapidly.
A lit green
traffic dock light on the set tells drivers it’s safe to roll slowly in. No more hand signals, no more of them getting out and walking around to see if the coast is clear, and no uneasy tentativeness for them if another truck is restricting their view. No more of one driver mistakenly boxing another one in, or, much worse, creating a potentially dangerous situation. (The last type of vehicle you want in your dock area, after all, is an ambulance.)
Once they’ve entered your loading dock area, the inside signal lights take over. They inform the drivers whether to stop momentarily or move on, and they guide the drivers to the particular dock where you want their cargo unloaded. No more chance of a large cargo getting stacked in the wrong place, forcing one of your forklift drivers to needlessly take on extra work.
More importantly, with the each traffic signal light set directing drivers exactly where to roll, they ensure that potentially damage-causing or physically dangerous situations will not arise. Trucks will not hit one another, and they will not hit your equipment or bump into and damage a wall or any other part of your dock area’s structure.
So order some
traffic signal dock lights today. They’re relatively inexpensive, and quickly will pay for themselves in increased dock efficiency. Moreover, your and your workers will immediately appreciate the increased safety that they provide.
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