People And Pallet Rack: Safety And Signage Best Practices
With more than 9.1 billion square feet of warehousing space in the U.S., pallet rack is everywhere. That pervasiveness, however, means that personnel could easily take its safety and reliability for granted. Therefore, owners and operators of warehouses and distribution ...
Relocating Pallet Rack To A New Facility? Read This First, ...
The previous post outlined three key areas a rack owner should consider prior to moving a storage rack system from one building to another. These include building codes, seismic activity, and fire suppression. There are, however, several other considerations to ...
Relocating Pallet Rack To A New Facility? Read This First, ...
Because storage racks are comprised of beams and uprights that can be reconfigured — and because each system represents a significant investment — free-standing pallet racks appear easy to relocate. That is, if an operation is moving from one address ...
Why Pallet Rack LARC Drawings Are Important
Although industrial steel storage rack is designed and engineered with adjustable beams to accommodate different load heights, for safety never change the configuration without consulting the pallet rack LARC drawings and a qualified design professional first. LARC is an abbreviation ...
The “Dos and Don’ts” of Reconfiguring Pallet Rack
Most pallet rack is manufactured for adjustability and assembly in multiple configurations, which might lead a system owner or user to assume a current installation can be reconfigured safely to increase storage density. While making such changes to racking, such ...
Use Rack Load Capacity Plaques And LARC Drawings For A ...
To ensure a safer, and, therefore, more productive operation, owners of industrial steel storage racking are responsible for posting rack load capacity plaques in conspicuous locations, and should refer to the system manufacturer’s load application and rack configuration (LARC) drawings ...