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3 Steps to Address Pallet Rack Rust | Apex Safety Spotlight
Preventing & Mitigating Pallet Rack Rust As Kryptonite is to the Man of Steel, so is rust to your steel pallet racking system. While seemingly strong and nearly impervious… even able to withstand an occasional altercation with a forklift, your pallet racking has inherent vulnerabilities. Rust is the enemy that must be stopped in its…
Optimize High-Density Storage & Order Picking with a Single Solution – Try a Pick Tunnel
Customize Your Pick Tunnel with These Expert Tips Take two costly features of your warehouse operation and combine them into one cost-effective solution… that’s what a pick tunnel delivers. Pick tunnels combine single or case-pick items on a floor level with replenishment stock storage above. This design takes labor-intensive order picking and minimizes the time…
The Perfect Fit – Pallet Rack Height Considerations & Precautions
Tips to Maximize Your Vertical Space with Custom-Fit Pallet Rack If you build it, pallet positions will come. Ok, that might be a stretch, but isn’t that the goal –to stretch your operating capital? Paying for underutilized cube space doesn’t make much sense, particularly when you can install pallet racking to maximize your available space….
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…
What 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…
2-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…
What 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…
Save Order Picking Time & Money with Smart Ergonomic Tools
Warehouse Ergonomic Tips to Boost Order Picking Efficiencies? Every warehouse and distribution center is concerned with operating costs. Since labor is typically the highest variable expense, keeping a tight rein on labor-intensive order picking and packing is essential. A cost-effective place to start is to consider ergonomics –the right practices and products can support your…
Prevent Pallet Rack Damage with System-Specific Forklift Training | Apex Safety Spotlight
On-Site Training & Videos Are the Right Tools to Protect Against Pallet Rack Damage Your pallet racking is a critical component of a productive warehousing operation. It’s also a significant capital investment. Those are two good reasons to do what you can to protect against forklift strikes that can lead to pallet racking damage. Your…
Apex Safety Spotlight Shines on Empty Pallet Return Lanes & More Seamless Case Picking
Less Risk, More Productivity – Case Picking with Empty Pallet Return Lanes Case picking directly from pallet flow storage lanes is a productive, space-saving way to meet the demand for fast- & medium-turn inventory. Pallet flow relies on slightly pitched wheeled or roller rails to propel pallets from a loading side to an opposite pick…
