Safety in warehouses: savings, efficiency, innovation. STOMMPY guest speaker at the Ungari S.r.l. event.
On the occasion of World Day for Health and Safety at Work, Ungari S.r.l. organized an event at its headquarters entirely dedicated to the topic of safety in warehouses.
Marco Chiarini, President of STOMMPY, spoke introducing the UNI Standard that will revolutionize and regulate the market for Industrial Impact Protection.
As every year, April 28 marked the World Day for Health and Safety at Work. On the occasion of this initiative, the Ungari S.r.l. - a leading company in the field of intralogistics and the provision of goods handling solutions - organized a conference at its headquarters in Cormano, Milan, focused on the important issue of safety within warehouses.
The event, held in-person and streamed live on major social platforms, aimed to bring to the attention of participants the most innovative safety solutions, with the goal of increasingly reducing the number of accidents that occur in warehouses and logistics spaces during goods handling activities.
STOMMPY, among the companies invited to take part in the initiative, contributed to the discussion through the words of President Marco Chiarini, whose speech explained to the audience present and the remotely connected audience the first Technical Standard UNI that aims to regulate the market of Shock Protection.
The Standard, which stemmed from an Italian initiative strongly desired and supported bySTOMMPY, was accepted and developed by UNI - the Italian National Unification Body - to fill the regulatory gap inherent in Industrial Impact Safety Barriers.
If today, in fact, it is still possible to signal potentially dangerous situations in workplaces only with simple signs or horizontal markings of little or no use, the future adherence of companies to the Standard - on a free and voluntary basis - will result in precise criteria for risk assessment, selection, installation and maintenance of protective devices.
In parallel, the same UNI Standard will provide manufacturers-such as STOMMPY-and testing laboratories with detailed criteria for the production and classification of Impact Safety Barriers.
Manufacturers, laboratories and users will thus be invested with a new circular responsibility, capable of triggering a virtuous dynamic of collaboration and qualification of relationships between suppliers and customers.
Other aspects related to safety in warehouses were covered at the April 28 event, such as technical doors and locks, the role of the forklift driver in Industry 4.0, and safety culture.
Like these, Impact Safety Barriers are now part of an overall framework of "savings, efficiency and innovation" related to occupational safety, ranking rightfully among the value assets for companies.
President Chiarini himself reminds us of this at the conclusion of his speech, "Our products, properly designed, selected and installed in workplaces, in addition to protecting people, machinery and facilities, themselves become business assets that can pay for themselves already in the short or medium term."
