Tag: Rack Safety

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Three Ways To Protect Rack Column Anchors From Forklift Damage

As a safeguard against the industrial steel storage rack falling down, anchor bolts are used to secure column base plates to the facility floor. Critical to the structural integrity of the rack, the anchors prevent the rack uprights from sliding ...
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American Welding Society Standards: Why They’re Critical To Rack Safety

Whether an industrial steel storage rack is comprised of structural or roll-formed steel components, the welds created in their fabrication are critical to the system’s safe and reliable performance. That’s because a variety of conditions could increase the risk of ...
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Where To Safely Tie-Off When Installing Storage Rack

To keep installers safe when working in an elevated position of six feet or more when assembling an industrial steel storage rack, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has specific requirements for the usage of personal fall protection systems. ...
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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 ...
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Why Are Pallets Important For Pushback System Safety?

Last-in/first-out (LIFO) pushback racking systems (like the vast majority of industrial steel storage rack systems) are designed for use with specific pallet types, loads and rack configurations. For that reason, it is critically important to ensure that operators only load ...
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Recommended Safety Practices For Case Picking Of Products Stored In ...

Because they support high-throughput order fulfillment of single product—typically fast movers—some operations utilize pushback racking storage systems as part of their picking process. In order to ensure that pickers are able to perform their assigned tasks safely when working with ...
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RMI Debuts New Rack And Decking Infographic At ProMat 2019

Released at ProMat 2019, RMI’s newest infographic offers an overview of the different available types of industrial storage racking and decking. It also details the benefits of each type of equipment, and the breadth of resources available from the Rack ...
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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, ...
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Best Practices In Safe Operation Of Pushback Rack

Industrial pushback racking storage systems are engineered to store pallet loads on both sides of an aisle at higher cubic densities approximately 25% to 65% greater than selective racking. That’s because these systems are built with a series of nested ...
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Safe Approaches To Unjamming Pallet Flow Systems

Although its designed for the pallets stored within it to flow smoothly from the point of loading (also called “charging”) to the pick face, sometimes a jam occurs in pallet flow rack (also known as “gravity flow”). Whether it’s a ...