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Pallet Wrapping 101 – Pallet Packing, OSHA, Safety & More! | Apex Safety Spotlight
Stretch Your Warehouse Safety Dollar with Proper Pallet Wrap Guidelines & Enforcement While holiday music may be playing in the background, wrapping isn’t a seasonal activity for most warehouse facilities. In fact, pallet wrapping is an all-year-round activity and a critical component of warehouse safety. Pallet wrapping secures otherwise loose items onto a pallet to…
Read MoreThe Right Fit Every Time — Step-by-Step Pallet Rack Measuring Guide
Sizing Up Pallet Rack Components for a Perfect Fit Understanding standard pallet rack dimensions and confirming that each component is correctly measured are essential steps in designing a new pallet rack system, adding on to an existing system or fixing broken components. Proper system functionality, safety, and structural capacity are at stake. The Apex Colorado…
Read MoreMaking the Case for Case Picking with Carton Flow Rack
Dynamic Carton Flow Rack is Your Front Line for Productive Order Picking Managing an increase in demand for smaller, individualized orders is one thing. Couple that with a labor shortage, rising wages and operational costs, and an industrial space shortage, and you’ve got a potential crisis in the making. However, there’s a relatively simple way…
Read MoreEasy Does It! Load & Unload Your Drive-In Rack Safely
Apex Colorado Experts Share Drive-In Rack Loading & Unloading Instructions Easy does it is the name of the game with drive-in pallet racking. The high-density system is a cost-effective storage solution in terms of the number of pallet positions for the space required; however, you will need skilled forklift operators to load and extract pallets…
Read MoreBulky Freight Goes North in the Southeast with Vertical Reciprocating Conveyors
VRC Lifts are Your Safe Go-Between for Heavy Equipment & Materials Mezzanine levels are an excellent way to use your vertical space and provide more room to safely configure ground floor operations. While your workers use stairs to access mezzanine levels, and forklifts use pallet drop areas for inventory,… how do you safely get heavy…
Read MoreColorado, These are the Pallet Specs You Need for Safe Pallet Rack Design
What You Need to Know About Pallets to Design a Pallet Racking System Do you know that the pallet is at the core of pallet racking design? Likely you do, but with a large variety of pallet types, materials, sizes, etc., we are here to lay out all the details you need to understand to…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Reconfiguring Pallet Racking
Address Inventory Changes with Pallet Racking Reconfiguring With the built-in durability of pallet racking and the tidal wave of warehousing changes, particularly these past few years, you may be wondering what it takes to reconfigure your rack system to fit new inventory specs and changing SKUs. We hear you, and you’re not alone. It is…
Read More2-Deep Pallet Rack – How to Choose Between Push-Back vs Double-Deep
Stacking the Pros & Cons of Push-Back & Double-Deep for 2-Deep Pallet Rack Get your snorkel, we’re going on a deep-dive into two-deep pallet rack storage – push-back vs. double-deep systems. What benefits, savings or hidden costs do you get with these high-density storage systems? High-density pallet rack creates tall, compact storage structures over a…
Read MoreWhat Does OSHA Say About Pallet Rack Safety? | Apex Safety Spotlight
Pallet Rack Safety & OSHA Standards — What You Need to Know to Comply The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is the government oversight body in charge of monitoring workplace safety. As a general rule, businesses should want to avoid unsafe working conditions for obvious reasons, but the threat of OSHA oversight and hefty…
Read MoreCarolina Buyers – Is Mixing & Matching Pallet Rack Components the Way to Go?
How to Safely Expand Your Pallet Rack System by Mixing & Matching Components The need to increase warehouse storage capacity always comes down to the same question… How do you do more with the same amount of space? One good option can be to increase the capacity of an existing pallet rack system. By getting…
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