Shop
A hardware shop in Pennick Cross
Shelving to the ceiling, a stockroom door propped open and boxes stacked in front of the fire exit.
Town
Pennick Cross
Floors
2
Floor area
460 m²
Occupancy
Up to 60 customers and 8 staff
Assessed
Review date
What we found
Three findings, marked on the photograph.
1
Stock blocks exit door
Act now
Move the stock away from the exit door and keep a clear path to it.
2
Stockroom door propped
Within three months
Fit a closer to the stockroom door and stop propping it.
3
Heater lead across aisle
Within a month
Move the heater next to a wall socket so no lead crosses the aisle.
What changed
The same place after the work.
The exit has a marked clear zone and the heater sits by the wall next to its socket.
The shop sells paint, tools and fixings. The sales floor and stockroom are on the ground floor, and a second floor of bulk storage is reached by a stair from the stockroom.
The sales floor was tidy and the shelving was sound. The trouble was at the back, where the shop meets the stock. The fire exit on the right had boxes of deliveries stacked in front of it, left there between a delivery and a shelf-fill that had not yet happened. The stockroom door was propped with a paint tin, because it swung shut on whoever was carrying something.
We marked three findings. The owner took the stock away while we were still on site and said, fairly, that he had walked past it for months. The closer for the stockroom door is booked, as it needs a softer spring so it will not slam. The heater lead was the easiest fix of all.
The yellow tape in front of the exit is his idea, and it works. Staff now see the boundary before they stack past it.
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