Health, Safety and Wellbeing for FMCG and Consumer Goods
Induction, records, incident reporting and follow-through.
What this looks like in fmcg and consumer goods
The parts of health, safety and wellbeing that are specific to this sector, rather than general.
Safety Across Plant, Depot and Road
Machinery, material handling and a field force that drives.
What this coversHide
Safety Across Plant, Depot and Road
Machinery, material handling and a field force that drives.
What this coversHideFMCG safety covers a plant, a depot network and a field force whose main exposure is road travel - the last being the most common source of serious harm and the least managed.
Plant and depot
- Machine guarding and line safety
- Material handling and stacking
- Cold storage and confined space where present
- Hygiene and contamination controls
Field force
- Road safety and two-wheeler risk
- Travel hours and fatigue
- Personal safety in unfamiliar territories
- Load handling during merchandising
Two-wheeler road safety for field staff deserves specific attention. It is the highest-consequence risk most FMCG businesses carry and is rarely part of the safety programme.
The general method — what health, safety and wellbeing covers, the questions it answers and what an engagement produces — is the same whatever the sector, and is set out on the workplace health, safety and wellbeing page. What is above is the part that differs for fmcg and consumer goods.
Other HR topics for fmcg and consumer goods
Where to start
Most engagements begin with a review of how this runs in your business today, then a written process and the sequence to implement it.
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