Safety in warehouses tends to be greatly about the interactions between forklifts, pallet racks, people and stored products. This list of rack safety tips is part of our ongoing efforts to help warehouses operate safely and efficiently.
More Pallet Rack Safety Tips
September 9, 2008
by Scott Stone
Tags: industrial accident prevention, Material Handling, Pallet Rack, warehouse safety, storage
Posted in Pallet & Warehouse Racks|
Wire Pallet Rack Deck Capacities: What You Need to Know
August 17, 2008
by Scott Stone
Craig Chamberlain has an article over at the MHEDA Edge website that you need to read if you use pallet rack wire decking.
Here’s the money quote:
“Decking can, and often does, directly bear the total weight of the application’s load and transfers that load to the beams of the pallet rack. Regardless of the weight-bearing capacity of the rack’s beams, an improperly overrated deck can and will jeopardize the load-bearing capacity of the entire system and result in a failure.”
Tags: Material Handling, Pallet Rack, OSHA, warehouse safety, facilities maintenance, wire rack decking
Posted in Pallet & Warehouse Racks|
How to Minimize Forklift Impacts on Pallet Racks
July 3, 2008
by Scott Stone
Pallet racks take a beating over time. They get loaded with exceptionally heavy pallets, by exceptionally powerful lift trucks over and over throughout the course of years. Chances are that if you have pallet rack in your warehouse, it’ll get hit at some point. When it does, inspecting (and generally replacing) it is your best course of action. But what about avoiding that hit, or its dangerous aftermaths in the first place?
Tags: Material Handling, Pallet Rack, OSHA, warehouse safety, facilities maintenance
Posted in Pallet & Warehouse Racks|
Comparing Pallet Rack Guards: Flexible Netting vs. Wire Mesh Panels
May 19, 2008
by Scott Stone
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.
Tags: Pallet Rack, warehouse safety, storage, industrial accident prevention, Material Handling
Posted in Pallet & Warehouse Racks|
Basics: Rivet Shelving and Heavy-Capacity Applications
February 28, 2008
by Scott Stone
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: warehousing, warehouse safety, Industrial Shelving, storage, records storage, parts bins, archival
Posted in Storage, Organization & Workstations|