Picture This: Unsafe Work Practices

Look at the image below of a workplace injury. There’s a man unconscious and an array of debris around him. Notably, there is a hard hat, but it has been knocked from his head. What happened here was a lack of safety concern in the workplace. As this man was walking down the warehouse, another employee was overstocking a short shelf above, a regular practice at the facility to use storage space efficiently. As the employee squished the last box in, the stack gave way and collided into the man below, knocking him to the ground, unconscious.

If practices were regularly reviewed in this facility for maximum safety, then this accident could have been prevented.