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        Safe
        Stacking
        and
        Storage
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      Published by the Occupational Safety and Health Service
      Department of Labour
      Wellington
      New Zealand
      ISBN 0-477-03449-7
      First published: 1985
      Reprinted: 1988
      Revised for OSH web site: 1999
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       Contents
       Introduction and Scope................................................................. 5
       A Safe Work System ...................................................................... 6
       Floors and Supporting Surfaces...................................................7
       Stock Holding Structures.............................................................. 8
       Pallet Construction and Loading .................................................8
       Positioning of Stacks...................................................................... 9
       Size and Shape of Stacks............................................................. 11
       Stability and Bonding of Stacks .................................................12
       Stacking Different Types of Goods.............................................13
       Rules for Destacking.................................................................... 16
       Segregation of Stock .................................................................... 17
       Fire Safety .................................................................................... 19
       Materials Handling Equipment..................................................21
       Safe Stock Movement.................................................................. 22
       Automated Storage...................................................................... 23
       Housekeeping............................................................................... 23
       Lighting ........................................................................................ 24
       Noise.............................................................................................. 24
       Protective Clothing and Equipment ..........................................24
       Training of Employees................................................................. 24
       Appendix: Incompatible Chemicals...........................................25
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                Introduction and Scope
                      hatever the nature of your     irrespective of the particular systems
                Wbusiness, it is likely to           used.
                involve the stacking and storage of       The advice in this booklet is
                goods and materials. Every year      intended to cover all types of goods
                accidents occur while goods are      and materials, with the exception of
                being stacked or destacked and put   timber and loose bulk materials such
                into or taken out of storage. Many   as sand or grain, which are the
                of these accidents are serious—some  subject of separate publications
                are fatal.                           issued by the Department of Labour.
                     This booklet is designed to     Also, it does not cover the storage
                help employers and employees to      of dangerous goods and explosives
                develop safe and effective methods   which are subject to:
                for stacking and storage and so meet — The Dangerous Goods Act 1974
                their obligations under health and   — The Dangerous Goods Regula-
                safety legislation.                      tions 1958
                     There is an enormous variety    — The Dangerous Goods Class 2
                of storage systems and stacking          Gases Regulations 1980
                methods in use today. Materials      — The Explosives Act 1957
                handling equipment, too, is          — The Explosives Regulations
                extremely diverse, ranging from          1959.
                hand trolleys through various types       Advice on the legislative
                of forklift truck to sophisticated   provisions covering these goods can
                warehouse robots.                    be obtained from the Occupational
                     Obviously, this booklet cannot  Safety and Health Service.
                deal with all these in detail.            Dangerous substances not
                However, it does set out the general falling within the above legislation,
                requirements and principles for safe should be stored in accordance with
                stacking and storage which apply     these guidelines.
                    Platform truck
                                                                 Hand truck
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