Warehouse, Distribution, & Racking Health and Safety Consulting

Knowing your workplace hazards and which pose the greatest risk, is key to building an effective health and safety program that will reduce the risk of workplace accidents, injuries and fatalities.

During a Hazard Identification, a consultant will conduct a physical conditions inspection and provide you with a report of the identified hazards; valuable information for building an effective action plan.

A Hazard Assessment builds upon Hazard dentification work. The assessment will help you prioritize your risks so you can develop an action plan that ensures the greatest threats to worker safety are addressed

Completing a Hazard Assessment requires strong knowledge of potential hazards and appropriate controls, best practices, guidelines, regulations and legislation. This can take significant time and staff resources. Why not let WSPS safety professionals do the work for you? Learn more about our Health & Safety Consulting Programs and Services.

Warehouse and distribution centres are high-risk environments. Having mobile powered equipment, vehicles and pedestrians operating in the same workspace can be a recipe for disaster.

The first step to managing these risks is to understand the hazards. A Pedestrian Safety & Traffic Management Inspection focuses on the interactions between your people, equipment, and structures and the pedestrian safety risks that exist. Following the inspection, recommendations for improvement are provided so that the risk to worker safety can be mitigated.

Material Handling contributes to high-risk hazards in many workplaces and is a continual focus area for the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development. A greater understanding of associated hazards and contributing practices is an important first step to maintaining worker health and safety.

A Material Handling Safety Assessment will help businesses that regularly move materials, manually or with equipment such as forklifts or pump trucks, identify key material handling safety risks. Our field staff will conduct a walkthrough of your facility to review pedestrian and traffic safety, racking and storage practices, industrial ergonomics, and machine safety related to loading and unloading tasks to highlight potential risks while offering practical guidance to support worker safety.

Following the visit, you receive a summary outlining key observations, potential control options, and links to helpful resources to support planning and improvement in worker safety.

Ensuring your steel storage racks are in good working condition is critical to ensuring the safety of your workers. Understanding their intended use and proper maintenance is the first step in preventing accidents and injuries.

Our consultants will educate you on how to spot unsafe practices, including improperly installed racking, overloading and damage caused by lift trucks. Following the awareness session, participants will join our expert on a one-hour inspection of your facility’s racks, providing an opportunity for your staff to apply newfound knowledge and ask questions of our expert.

Pedestrian–vehicle interactions are a major source of serious workplace incidents. When forklifts, lift trucks, trailers, and pedestrians operate in the same space, the risk of struck‑by injuries and fatalities increases significantly. This solution helps organizations recognize these hazards and understand how everyday factors contribute to unsafe conditions.

This two‑hour, customizable training session focuses on how workers, equipment, and traffic routes interact, and provides clear strategies to improve pedestrian safety. Using site‑specific examples and practical tools, participants learn how to apply effective controls, strengthen traffic management, and reinforce safe practices.