Legal and technical classification
In a logistics hall a framework of occupational safety law, water law and fire protection applies. Each part leads to a different measure.
- Statutory duty: traffic routes that are safe to use
- The Arbeitsstättenverordnung (German Workplace Ordinance) requires that traffic routes can be used safely. A slippery traffic route made of rubber abrasion, fine dust and moisture is a safety-relevant condition. How strongly cleaning affects grip in an individual case depends on the covering, tyre material, load and speed – a calculation would be dishonest.
- Statutory duty: handling substances hazardous to water
- Hydraulic oil, fuel residues and de-icing salt collect at loading ramps, dock levellers and in the area in front of gates. These substances must not reach the drainage system. We work with bonded absorbent material, take up the residues separately and send them for disposal, so that the process remains traceable.
- Fire protection: deposits are combustible
- Deposits on girders, cable trays and pipe networks are combustible. Girder and height cleaning is therefore not cosmetic work: it belongs in the contract as an item of its own, with named access equipment, closure and protection against falling parts.
- Boundary: sprinkler systems are tested by a specialist firm
- Sprinkler heads and pipe networks must not be adjusted, covered or damaged. Dust on pipe networks and girders can be cleaned. Testing and maintenance of the sprinkler system itself belongs in the hands of the responsible specialist firm – that is not a cleaning service.
- Company requirement: closure and marking routine
- How an aisle is closed, marked and released again is defined by your business. This routine determines whether work can be done section by section. It is the demanding part of the task – and the part where providers differ.
- No certification by the service provider
- We document the work carried out. We are not a certification body and certify neither the safety of your traffic areas nor the functional capability of technical systems. Both are operator matters, not service provider documents.
The rules named here describe requirements on how the work is carried out — they are not a certification held by BREREI. VDI and DIN standards are chargeable and were not available in full text; where a statement touches the standard in detail, this is noted in place.