A carton sealed today is not necessarily a carton that will open cleanly in six months. Many cartons are sealed, stacked, and then left alone: seasonal stock held for the next peak, spare parts kept for a service contract, export goods waiting for a shipping window, or archived product that must still arrive intact when it is finally called forward. In those cases the seal is not judged at the pac...
Warehouse safety programs tend to focus on the obvious risks: lifting heavy cartons, forklift traffic, and slips on the floor. The packing station rarely gets the same attention, yet it is where the same motions are repeated hundreds of times a day, every day. A packer reaches for a carton, pulls tape, cuts it, presses the seal, and repeats the sequence. Done well, that sequence is fast and uneven...