Why TF do we have to keep our back dock door sealed "Do not exit"? At our store, vendors and drivers are forced to use the roll up door. If this is an issue of security (to keep people from stealing) their logic is faulty. Instead of having them use a regular door, they're using one twice its size. (What larger items can walk out the back door now?).
What else is stupid for the receiver is that the roll up door is to be locked anytime it's not visible to the receiver. Well in today's "no hours" workplace, the receiver is often out on the floor helping grocery stock. This means that anytime there's a vendor or delivery (even if it's a vendor who doesn't actually get checked in), the receiver has to stop what they're doing to go back and unlock the door to let them in. The better solution would be to use the regular door so that it's still "locked" so that people can't enter as they please. At least with that option, anyone on the dock can push the door open to let them in. With the use of the roll up door, we have to have a padlock to unlock it. Not everyone has a key.
On that same topic, we lock the 2nd bay door (opposite the salvage trailer) with a padlock. This makes it more difficult for anyone to unload a delivery. Someone explain how tf locking it is any more secure than just having it latched? If a latch can be broken somehow (from the outside!) how does a lock help? The latch system is only as strong as the latch itself. IF it could be penetrated, the lock would do no good
The first concern could actually be brought your County / City Code Inspector who on a surprise visit, no warning, no word, finds that door like that, and the store is in for a metric **** ton of fines regarding fire code (If the door we have is the same as yours, it's a designated emergency exit, and fire code enforces that status.) Best we can do is keep the alarm pad and the push bar alarm armed, but the door is locked from outside. You need to manually unlatch / push the bar to open the door. At night the door bar deadbolt is set with both alarms on. Sometimes FD doesn't care, other times though, if they are looking to hit you with something, they'll know exactly where to look first. Having the people enter n exit via the roll up just to me sounds plain dangerous as that could be an OSHA violation, also something OSHA would love to make easy chump change over (unless the dock has a small platform and the truck doesn't back directly to the door, but it's not sounding like the dock has a platform.)
Our doors are always locked with padlocks. But they are also tied into the alarm keypad via mag sensor, so all of receiving is it's own zone basically.
The first concern could actually be brought your County / City Code Inspector who on a surprise visit, no warning, no word, finds that door like that, and the store is in for a metric **** ton of fines regarding fire code (If the door we have is the same as yours, it's a designated emergency exit, and fire code enforces that status.) Best we can do is keep the alarm pad and the push bar alarm armed, but the door is locked from outside. You need to manually unlatch / push the bar to open the door. At night the door bar deadbolt is set with both alarms on. Sometimes FD doesn't care, other times though, if they are looking to hit you with something, they'll know exactly where to look first. Having the people enter n exit via the roll up just to me sounds plain dangerous as that could be an OSHA violation, also something OSHA would love to make easy chump change over (unless the dock has a small platform and the truck doesn't back directly to the door, but it's not sounding like the dock has a platform.)
Our doors are always locked with padlocks. But they are also tied into the alarm keypad via mag sensor, so all of receiving is it's own zone basically.
we rarely arm the alarms. When they do decide to (maybe once a year), they don't tell anyone who might be working the next morning. I'll come in, take off the padlock, raise the door and bam, sirens. Then I've got to go over to the pad and hope I can remember the code.
The door I referenced (that is "sealed") is a regular door that you push the bar to open (not marked "emergency exit only"). The seal I was referring to is a little sticker basically that shows if the door has been opened. I suppose as long as one has access to those little seals, they could use that door regularly then just put a new seal on.
I guess the roll up door being a violation could be because it could fall on someone's head? It's actually been used so much that it doesn't stay up on its own anymore. If someone is bringing something in, they almost have to have someone hold the door open or it will fall on their head!
