Shelving Mishaps You Need to Avoid

Mistakes happen in every kind of business – the real harm comes from ignoring the potential of them happening. In the environment of a warehouse or distribution centre, they can be costly, embarrassing and fatal. How best to avoid making mistakes with commercial warehouse shelving is to ensure that they are paid attention to and rectified. In warehouses, there are common mistakes that almost always happen at least once .

Keeping Consistent

The worse thing that you may be doing with your commercial shelving is that it is all over the place and not consistent. If you have much different Frankenstein-style shelving pieced together to make up your aisles then you are doing yourself an injustice.

For starters, it doesn’t look good and does more harm to your brand than good. If the look of all shelving, pallet racking and warehouse storage equipment looks all over the place, just imagine how much a nightmare it is in stocking them up.

Ensuring that your racking systems are consistent with your brand is one of the major mishaps you need to avoid.

Dirty Shelving

In keeping it consistent, you also need to keep the shelving clean. Stock is stored in your warehouse and the majority of owners of that stock would not be happy to discover that they sit on dusty, grimy and dirt littered shelving.

Be sure to keep your shelving cleaned whenever the stock is emptied and before any new stock arrived. It is not a time-consuming process and can be covered in your commercial cleaning contract, which is much better than word starting to spread that you have unclean premises not fit to hold precious stock.

Proper Installation

The other main threat when it comes to shelving is discovering that it is not installed correctly or to standard. If you notice shaking in the shelving, a bad dent that provides a rattling or instability in its construction, it needs addressing straight away.

If it is ignored for long enough, then the day arrives when a partial or full collapse of your shelving system leads to damaged stock, hold up in time whilst things are cleared or, even worse, a staff member seriously injured. These are some of the worst-case scenarios, with others being irreparable damage done to your businesses reputation and a loss of confidence from your workforce for not providing a safe working atmosphere.

Some solutions are simple and others call more drastic measures, but each mistake can be costly for your business image. For industrial storage racks, commercial warehouse shelving and office equipment Manchester, contact the team at Monarch Shelving today.