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Aisle A · Storing things for a business
A guide to storing things for a business, in plain words, published by Dotto from the official sources linked on each page: chemicals, racking, forklifts, a storage unit’s agreement, records and food. Six bays, each written from the regulators’ own pages.
Each bay is one question, answered from the regulator or government page that owns it. Start anywhere.
Bay 01 Load: see the manufacturer’s rating
The register, the placards, the manifest, and the quantities that switch each one on.
Bay 02 Load: see the manufacturer’s rating
Load signs, the three levels of damage and what to do about each, and inspections.
Bay 03 Load: see the manufacturer’s rating
The two forklift classes, getting and renewing a licence, and the workplace around the driver.
Bay 04 Load: see the manufacturer’s rating
Standard form contracts, which small businesses the unfair terms law covers, and goods left behind.
Bay 05 Load: see the manufacturer’s rating
How long, by whose rule, and how to keep records unchanged, findable and safe.
Bay 06 Load: see the manufacturer’s rating
Contamination, temperature control, the cool room, and NSW’s licence for cold stores.
Safe working load
See the manufacturer’s rating
WorkSafe Victoria describes the safe working load as the maximum weight of unit loads that should be placed on racking for it to remain safe, available from the manufacturer’s instructions, and says changes to the racking configuration alter it.
A figure printed on a website would belong to no rack you own. So every plate on this site carries the only instruction that is true of all of them: see the manufacturer’s rating. The racking bay explains what a real sign shows and who may change it.
One line from each of four bays’ official sources, worth knowing before anything goes on a shelf.
“Someone must not be able to mistake the container and packaging for food or drink.”
Safe Work Australia, Storing hazardous chemicals
Food should be stored separately to chemicals, such as cleaning agents and pest control poisons.
FSANZ, Safe Food Australia
A forklift is not safe to use as a work platform, and standing on its fork arms or on a pallet to get extra height is not safe either.
Safe Work Australia, forklift information sheet
The relevant information in your records “must be stored in a way that protects the information from being changed or the record from being damaged.”
commercialstorage.com.au is a guide to storing things for a business, published by Dotto. Each bay is written from the regulators’ and government pages listed at the foot of each page.
It is general information, not legal, safety or tax advice, and states and territories can have different rules: where a rule belongs to one state, the page says which. Where this guide and an official page differ, the official page is right.