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Protect Uprights From Forklift Impacts With Pallet Rack Column Guards

What’s one of the biggest causes of accidental damage to industrial steel storage rack? It’s impacts from motorized vehicles, such as forklifts. Exposed pallet rack columns facing the aisles are at the highest risk of damage due to these impacts. ...
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New Employee Training: Teaching The Basics Of Rack Safety

According to 2021 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the average rate of recorded injuries among warehousing employees was 5.5 for every 100 full-time workers. That represented an increase of 23% (122,700 cases) of days away from ...
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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 ...
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The Six Different Rack Safety Inspections Needed During A System’s ...

To ensure the safety and performance of a rack system, a series of six separate inspections is conducted throughout the system’s lifetime. An MHI Cast podcast recording about rack safety discusses the different types of inspections. It features the late ...
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The Ins and Outs of Pallet Rack Anchoring

Anchoring is required and essential. Here’s what you need to know. Your racking systems are the heart of your warehousing storage, and ensuring safe use is essential. In most cases, racking holds multiple tons of pallets, representing thousands upon thousands ...
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Rack Inspections 101: Keeping your racks in top shape means ...

If you have racks in your warehouse or distribution center, then you need to inspect them periodically. Why? Any time you have humans working in and around racks, you have the potential for impacts and errors, leading to subsequent damage. ...
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Storage Rack Safety: Avoid the damage that can lead to ...

Racks are the center of your operations and you’ve invested a good deal of time and money into their design and layout. Don’t let that all go to waste by overlooking some simple safety measures. If done well, your racking ...
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New Employee Training: The Basics of Loading and Unloading Your ...

When you bring in new hires, essential training includes rack loading/unloading safety. Working in the material handling industry brings with it plenty of safety risks. In fact, in the warehouse, one in 20 employees is injured every year, according to ...
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Protecting Your Racking Investment

You’ve just purchased new racking—don’t leave anything to chance. Protect and inspect for a long-lasting product. You’ve gone through the process of selecting the right racks for your operations and installation is scheduled. With a big investment, your next step ...
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Adjusting Rack Levels

Initial rack configurations may not work for the long haul. Here’s how to make adjustments. No business stays static over a lifetime, and the same applies to its warehouses. The equipment in a given warehouse may also through changes over ...