Protecting Your Pallet Racking

Within your warehouse, your pallet racking can sustain immense damage on any given day due to many unexpected calamities such as forklift trucks to access equipment.

There are many instances where damage can occur as a normal procedure, but it only takes one instance where all that built-up damage can lead to a catastrophe if not adequately repaired or fully replaced.

When it comes to replacing pallet racking, Monarch Shelving has you covered. But how do you reinforce extra measures to make it last much longer and be protected against potential fatality in the workplace?

Protective Measures

By installing steel floor mounted column guards you are reinforcing the strength of the posts and columns of your pallet racking.

By having this option bolted to the floor in front of each post, your pallet racking is further protected from any knocks that could devastate your inventory. Rack end protection barriers can also help to keep vulnerable areas safe from serious damage in the case of accidents or collision. Although dents will occur whenever an incident does come into contact, you will find this is mostly the extent of any damage caused.

Brightly coloured safety bollards are always a great precaution when strategically placed around the warehouse. Found placed around walls, offices and loading bays they help to greatly reduce impact from glancing blows to collisions head-on.

Other Measures

Collisions with pallet racking can be caused by a number of other factors also, such as low lighting in aisles and especially clogged up areas and overstuffed racking.

If you suffer from aisles that overflow and some products that are larger but not as popular on picking, you can look at extending your pallet racking higher and placing these larger items up high out of the way of picking trucks and forklifts, which also keeps your productivity sharp.

If your current racking is too bulky and you could utilize a slimmer and fresher model that keeps areas spacious and provides stronger support for your products, then you can look to overhaul existing with new racking. This does not have to be done overnight as you can section the replacement and be able to move the product to accommodate the change.

In order to safely reduce the amount of damage within your warehouse premises, you need to access the most likely or reported damages by your workforce and plan accordingly on the measures to implement and avoid catastrophe.

Contact the team at Monarch Shelving for the best in warehouse storage equipment and solutions for your business.