Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-2103 - Classification 2103

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
2103-00 Fulfillment centers
Applies to businesses engaged in operating facilities called
				fulfillment centers. Fulfillment centers in this rule are defined as businesses
				that:
* Have an online marketplace to sell their own merchandise and
				third-party sellers' merchandise;
* Sell their own name brand merchandise retail online;
* Offer warehousing and order fulfillment services for
				third-party sellers;
* Use automated vehicles and robotics within the
				facility;
* Emphasize quick timelines and monitor employees for speed;
				and
* Offer same-day or two-day delivery options.
These businesses store, sell, and ship a wide variety of goods.
				Types of goods for sale may include, but are not limited to:
* Appliances;
* Arts/crafts/sewing;
* Automotive;
* Baby products;
* Beauty products;
* Cell phones and accessories;
* Clothing, shoes and jewelry;
* Collectibles and fine art;
* Computers;
* Electronics;
* Grocery/gourmet foods;
* Home and kitchen;
* Health and personal care;
* Industrial and scientific;
* Office products;
* Pet supplies;
* Patio, lawn and garden;
* Sports and outdoors;
* Tools and home improvement;
* Toys and games.
Operations may include, but are not limited
				to:
* Customer service centers;
* Logistic operations, coordinating customer orders with the
				closest fulfillment center and planning transportation needs;
* Warehouses - Pick, pack, and ship customer orders. Some
				warehouses may be specifically for large items like furniture;
* Sortation centers - Customer orders are sorted by final
				destination and consolidated on to trucks for faster delivery;
* Specialty centers - Designed for specific item categories or
				for seasonal use;
* Receiving centers - Take in large orders of types of
				inventory expected to sell quickly and allocating to other locations;
* Third-party vendor services - Services include order,
				payment, and returns processing. Fulfillment centers also offer warehousing and
				order fulfillment to third-party sellers;
* Specialized, automated or mechanized tools or equipment or
				systems - Used to speed sorting or delivery or processing including, but not
				limited to, robotic vehicles, or mechanized equipment.
Work activities may include, but are not limited
				to:
* Using automated or mechanized tools, equipment, systems or
				vehicles and/or robotics;
* Unpacking and inspecting incoming goods;
* Placing goods in storage and recording their location;
* Quality assurance;
* Picking goods from computer recorded locations to make up an
				individual shipment;
* Sorting and packing orders;
* Shipping.
Equipment and machinery may include, but are not limited
				to:
* Bins;
* Forklifts;
* Computer devices;
* Conveyors;
* Handheld scanners;
* Mailing machines;
* Packing machines;
* Robots (small and large);
* Trucks or vans.
Special Notes:
* This classification differs from subclassification 2102-00
				Warehouses in that businesses in subclassification 2102-00 store merchandise
				that they do not own, usually store merchandise for long periods of time, and
				do not fulfill orders placed by individual retail customers.
* This classification differs from classification 6407
				Wholesale stores in that businesses in classification 2103 meet the definition
				of "fulfillment centers" at the beginning of this rule and businesses in
				classification 6407 do not meet all of the criteria to be classified as
				fulfillment centers.
Exclusions:
* Delivery drivers (other than those involved in transferring
				inventory between facilities owned by the business) are reported separately in
				classification 1101;
* Warehouse operations that store products for others, do not
				own any of the products being stored, and are not in the business of selling
				the goods they store are classified in 2102;
* Businesses selling a specific category of goods are
				classified in the store classification applicable to the products sold;
* Wholesale distributors that do not operate automated and
				robotic fulfillment centers that sell both retail and wholesale of products for
				themselves as well as third-party vendors are classified in
				6407.