Unguarded rack is dangerous if there are people working in the aisles below. Safety managers know this, insurance companies know it, and if you have rack in your facility, you probably know it too. You have probably seen pallets break. You’ve seen drivers make mistakes when loading & unloading. We’ve seen things fall. If you’ve been in the business any length of time, you may have walked into your warehouse in the morning to find a case of something from the fourth level split open on the floor.
Comparing Pallet Rack Guards: Flexible Netting vs. Wire Mesh Panels
Tags: Material Handling, Pallet Rack, warehouse safety, storage, industrial accident prevention
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What Type of Industrial Shelving?
While there are dozens and dozens of shelving manufacturers and even more variations of trade names for them, there are really just three basic kinds of industrial shelving manufactured and broadly used — Rivet-Type, Steel Clip, and Wire. Of course, there are more variations of these shelving types than you can imagine, but most shelving boils down to these kinds.
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Tags: facility maintenance, interior design, warehousing, Material Handling, industrial storage, shelving, shelves
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Basics: Rivet Shelving and Heavy-Capacity Applications
It’s safe to say that there is shelving of some kind in almost every warehousing or other industrial operation, offices, and most commercial facilities. Even a sophisticated distribution center outfitted with AS/RS usually has fallback storage in the form of rack or shelving. For those applications that require a lot of heavy-duty shelving, though, issues of capacity come to the forefront.
Tags: Industrial Shelving, storage, records storage, parts bins, archival, warehousing, warehouse safety
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