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 ...
New Employee Training: Teaching The Basics Of Rack Inspection
To ensure the safety of personnel working in and around industrial steel storage rack, it is important to train new (and existing) employees on the basics of rack inspection. There are several areas that associates and forklift operators can assess ...
Awareness Of The Importance Of Rack System Safety On The ...
Lurking amid the corners of the Internet are videos of catastrophic rack failures in warehouses and distribution centers. Simultaneously horrifying and mesmerizing, the worst rack-related accident footage captures chain reactions of collapse. Yet, by documenting such hazardous and costly accidents ...
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 ...
Navigating the World of Used Racking: In short, buyer beware ...
Without question, buying used racking will save you money. Often, you can find it at five to 10 percent or more below the cost of new racking. It’s also easy to lay your hands on used racking: from retailers who ...
The Three Types of Engineers You Need on a Project
Before you move forward with your rack design project, get these three types of engineers on board. You have plans to install a new racking system, whether within an existing facility or within a new, greenfield build. There’s a lot ...
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. ...
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 ...
Nine Benefits Of Rack Repair Kits
Pallet rack damage happens, often due to an impact from a forklift as it transports a load through the facility. Upon identification of a damaged rack section the structure should be isolated, and a qualified, professional rack engineer should be ...
Rack Safety, Design Pivotal In Growth Of MHI’s Oldest Industry ...
This article by Stephen Murdock originally appeared in the fourth quarter 2020 issue of MHI Solutions magazine and has been reprinted in its entirety with permission. The Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI), officially the oldest Industry Group in MHI, has seen ...