Tag: Pallet Rack Safety

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Don’t Make These Three Errors When Specifying And Installing Safety ...

Safety netting provides an essential layer of protection in today’s fast-paced warehousing and distribution environments. These protective guarding solutions—made of woven synthetic fibers—stop falling items from reaching the floor below. However, operations that neglect key application and installation details can ...
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Applying Safety Netting? Avoid These Common Mistakes

Safety netting plays a critical role in keeping people, products, and operations safe within dynamic warehouse environments. Made of woven synthetic fibers, these protective guarding solutions create a barrier that prevents products from falling to the floor below. However, even ...
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Combine Rack Repair Kits And Guarding In Damage Prone Areas

Engineered to hold thousands of pounds of stored material overhead, industrial pallet racks allow an operation to maximize its storage capacity. However, these structures are vulnerable to impacts from forklifts and the loads they carry. In particular, the columns — ...
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Machine Guarding: How To Determine Distance to Hazard

Machine guarding is essential for workplace safety as it protects employees from potential hazards such as moving parts, sharp edges, and points of operation. Correctly determining the placement distance of machine guarding away from the hazard is critical to their ...
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Rack Guarding Panels Protect Workers, Inventory, And Facility Structures

As business needs change, factories and warehouses are reconfiguring their industrial pallet rack more often. By moving these storage structures, operations can support different processes, work cells, equipment, and machinery. Frequently these structures are single deep selective rack. Without steel ...
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Protective Guarding Trends Include Guardrails, Topple Protection

In a recent article in MHI Solutions, “Topple Protection and New Standards Among the Key Developments for Protective Guarding Field,” members of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) discussed an increased commitment to safety in warehousing and distribution centers. The ...
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Protective Netting Safeguards People And Property In Multiple Industrial Applications

In the dynamic environments of today’s warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities, safety is paramount. Operations are increasingly storing inventory at higher heights and in different areas. That can, however, pose potential risks to personnel and property. Enter protective netting ...
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9 Ways Safety Netting Benefits Warehousing And Distribution Operations

Ensuring the safety of workers in warehouses and distribution centers (DCs) is crucial. With products stored overhead in industrial racking systems, however, there is a risk that items could fall. A falling item could result in injury to a person ...
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Protective Guarding Helps Warehouses Be OSHA Compliant And Eliminate Hazards

Last October, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began unscheduled inspections warehouses and distribution centers as part of its new National Emphasis Program. The agency’s goal is to reduce and eliminate hazards in these operations, which employ more than ...
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New ProGMA Video Explains Steel Mesh Containment Panel Standard

Storing products overhead in pallet racking is a great way to maximize the usable space in a warehouse or distribution center (DC). Yet it also increases the risk of items falling into aisleways and potentially causing injury to workers or ...