It is very important for those who have recently begun to run their own manufacturing facilities to make sure that their staff members take the right approach to packing up the valuable goods that are made on their premises. The following advice could help these new manufacturers with this element of their business operations.
1. Instruct the employees to wrap the wooden pallets in a way that allows the ISPM 15 compliance stamps to remain visible Most manufacturers who ship their goods on wooden pallets have to use ones that have been produced in a way that ensures that this equipment complies with the internationally-recognised phytosanitary standards; this means that these pallets have been designed to be inhospitable environments for ecologically-harmful microorganisms. Any pallet that has been made in this way will be given a stamp that serves as a visual indicator of its compliance with the aforementioned standards.
If a manufacturer uses these types of pallets, they must instruct the employees who stack products on this equipment, and then wrap them up with a roll of industrial stretch film, to do this in a way that allows the pallets stamp to be easily seen. The reason for this is as follows; when a pallet that is stacked with products arrives in a new country, it might not get through customs, if the officers who inspect it cannot find this stamp. In this situation, the delivery of the goods on this pallet might be delayed, as the customs employees may have to put the pallet aside and unwrap it to look for this stamp before they can allow it into the country. This could result in the goods on it taking several extra days to arrive at the customers' addresses.
Given this, manufacturers must insist that their employees take great care to ensure that the pallets' stamps are visible when they are wrapping them up with the aforementioned stretch film.
2. Instruct employees to inspect the packing equipment after any pest infestations in the facility
In a lot of industrial facilities, packing equipment is used to ensure that the goods made in these facilities are packed in a consistent and speedy manner. If or when a manufacturer's facility is infested with any type of pest, they must instruct their staff members to inspect this packing equipment after this situation has been dealt with. The reason for this is that this type of incident could affect the way in which the facility's goods look when they emerge from the packing equipment. If for example, the facility develops a mouse infestation, it is possible that after the building has been treated with chemicals or traps, there could be either dead mice or their droppings left behind in the internal parts of the facility's equipment.
If mouse droppings are in the packing equipment, and the employees don't inspect and clean out this waste before they switch the machinery on again, the goods that are put through this equipment could end up covered with these droppings. If this goes unnoticed, the customers might end up receiving products that are unsanitary and unusable. As such, it is essential for this equipment to be inspected and, if necessary, cleaned out, after any type of infestation.
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