I spent a day coming to grips with one of the new racking requirements laid out in Section 4.43.1 (5):
Subsection (5) requires the employer to obtain instructions for safely loading, unloading and maintaining the storage rack from either the manufacturer of the storage rack or a professional engineer and these instructions must be readily available in the workplace to workers. Maintenance instructions of storage racks will include any necessary regular maintenance and also any repair or replacement of components.
I spoke with WorkSafeBC, and the good folks at Industry Labour Services to learn what such “instructions” would look like. I then spoke with a popular manufacturer of these racks, Cellartek.
After a bit of backing and forthing we managed to produce a posting for the Barrel Racks. This is available in the Resources section of this site. Cellartek tell me that these instructions will be sent with each new shipment of their barrel racks.
I think that the key, or newest information would be that these instructions should be posted near the barrel racking, and employees should be made aware of them prior to their use.