Packaging Testing

- Bundled with product performance or safety testing.
- Set of requirements to avoid damage during transit.
- Tests reports verifying compliance.

Distribution Hazards: mechanical hazards
Basic Hazard / Typical circumstances

Impact
(a) vertical
- Package dropped to floor during loading and unloading on to or off nets, pallets, vehicle landing boards, etc.
- Package rolled over or tipped over to impact a face
- Fall from chutes or conveyors
- Result of throwing

(b) horizontal
- Rail or Road vehicle stopping and starting
- Swinging Crane impacts wall, etc
- Arrest by stop or others packs on chute or conveyor.
- Arrest when cylindrical package stops rolling
- Results of throwing

(c) stationary package impacted by another
- All above where circumstances cause the falling pack to impact another

Vibration
- From handling equipment( in factory, depot and at transshipment points)
- Engine and transmission vibration from road vehicles
- Running gear ~ Suspension vibration on rail
- Machinery vibration on ships
- Engine and aerodynamic vibration on aircraft

Compression
- Static stacks in factory, warehouse and store
- Transient loads during transport in vehicles
- Compression due to method of handling, e.g. crane grabs, slings, nets, squeeze clamps, etc.
- Compression due to restraint

Racking or deformation
- Uneven support due to poor floors, storage, etc.
- Uneven lifting due to bad slinging, localized suspension, etc

Piercing, puncturing, tearing, snagging
- Hooks, projections, misuse of handling equipment, or wrong method of handling