The Basics Of Storage Rack Safety Detailed In RMI’s ProMat ...
At ProMat 2019, held this past April in Chicago, members of RMI presented a free, on-floor seminar to attendees. Entitled “Storage Rack Safety 101,” the 35-minute session’s slides and audio were recorded for those who were unable to attend, or ...
Ensure Rack Safety By Using A Professional For Post-Installation Inspections
Although day-to-day routine inspections of storage rack should be conducted by facility owners and employees to identify damaged areas—regardless of the severity—it’s also a good practice to engage an independent professional rack engineer to review the system. These professional reviews ...
RMI’s New Video Overviews The Basics Of Rack Maintenance And ...
RMI has produced and released a new video offering some basic guidelines for inspecting, maintaining and repairing industrial steel storage rack systems to ensure a safe working environment. The video is targeted to both potential and current end users and ...
The Safest Way To Unjam A Pushback Rack System
Even though the wheeled carts in industrial pushback racking storage systems are designed to travel smoothly backward and forward from the point of pallet insertion and removal, jams can sometimes occur. Common causes of hang-ups include improper loading of pallets, ...
RMI Seminar At ProMat To Address Rack Safety In The ...
With the holiday shopping season officially starting a week ago on Black Friday (or—in some cases—a week or two prior, as retailers offered special discounts ahead of Thanksgiving to get a jump on the competition for consumers’ dollars), the popularity ...
Learn More About Rack Installation And Safety Inspections In RMI’s ...
The responsibility for safe industrial steel storage rack ownership and usage does not end at installation. Instead, it’s an ongoing process that includes several elements—including regular, routine inspections—to ensure a safe workplace. To help both potential and current end users ...
Don’t Forget To Check Permitting Requirements For Your Proposed Rack ...
Whether planning for a new rack system in a new location, or a new rack system in an existing location, the system cannot be installed until all applicable building codes have been satisfied. Further, a building permit must be issued ...
Making A Tight Beam-To-Column Connection
To ensure that a pallet rack beam does not separate from an upright rack column as a result of either an impact or seismic event, RMI’s ANSI MH16.1-2012: Specification for the Design, Testing and Utilization of Industrial Steel Storage Racks ...
Mix Racking From Different Manufacturers At Your Own Risk
In many cases, rack collapses are caused by unsafe mixing and matching of incompatible components from different manufacturers (also known as “intermembering”). If a rack column or beam is damaged, an owner might erroneously believe that it can be replaced ...
Repair The Rack System Versus Repair The Damaged Component
Rack systems’ appearance is deceptively simple. Uprights and beams form a framework that holds pallets with loads of product; to the casual observer, these systems don’t look overly complex. So if a rack component is damaged, it should just be ...