Safety
Gloves and hearing protection.
What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
Induct cartons this way to avoid jams.
What is most conveyable side?
The target spacing between cartons when throwing in sequence.
What is 12 inches?
The maximum amount of time the line is stopped before the secondary unloader flexes out.
What is one minute?
The acronym used at Target to promote clean work areas.
What is CAYGO?
The method used when one unloader is on a step stool.
What is the hand-down method?
Unloaders A and B alternating unless on step stool.
What is side by side unloading?
Moving out of your primary role to support other functions on the line.
What is flexing?
One way to help clear the processing line when there are already multiple team members on the line.
What is stack and push?
The safety feature on the conveyor that prevents a team member from being crushed by the line.
What is the crash bar?
Unloading this way ensures that the same items come down the line at the same time.
What is grouping like cartons together?
The optimal induction distance between the freight and the conveyor.
What is 18-24 inches?
The most effective way that the unloader can help the pallet processor while flexing.
How to build pallets?
The tool used to ensure induction remains within our vertical power zone.
What is a step stool?
The unloader can unload pallets this way to minimize sorting on the processing line.
What is unloading layer by layer?
Clear jams on the conveyor, remove trash and pallets from trailer, remove shrink wrap from pallets and prepare the primary unloader for most efficient inducting.
What are secondary unloader responsibilities?
The most effective way that the unloader can help the extra small processor while flexing.
What is labeling and putting away cartons?
The tool used to unload a leaning wall safely.
What is a shepherd's hook?
Inducting cartons firmly against this will ensure that cartons are labeled properly by the ACM.
What is the guide bar?
The distance between the beginning of one box to the beginning of the next box.
What is pitch?
Once the stoppage concern is over and accumulation stays within the green area.
When to flex back into the trailer?