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Pallet Stacking – How High is Too High? | Apex Safety Spotlight
Avoid Unnecessary Warehouse Hazards with an Empty Pallet Storage Plan Workplace safety is effectively a tool for producing cost-effective warehouse operations. Preventing injuries, damage and productivity slowdowns allows your staff to move safely and effectively about the facility and saves valuable time and expense. With billions of pallets flowing in and out of U.S. warehouse…
Making Cents of Pallet Rack Purchases with Smart Leasing & Financing
Why buy when you can lease? That phrase is catchy and popular in today’s culture for everything from automobiles to home appliances. However, it also makes a lot of sense for businesses to consider all available purchasing options for significant capital expenditures, such as material handling and pallet rack systems. Let’s explore some payment options…
Warehouse Floor Markings – Are You Speaking Our Language? | Apex Safety Spotlight
Apex Safety Spotlights address warehouse safety solutions and tools that are smart and easy to apply but can sometimes be overlooked in busy facilities. As far as the Apex team is concerned, anything that promotes safety and enhances productivity is worth knowing about, so we are shining our spotlight straight down to… your warehouse floor….
Push-Back Rack Components: Carts, Wheels & Rails
How Component Design Affects Fit, Flow, and Inspection Push-back rack can add dense pallet storage without requiring a forklift to enter the lane, but the system is only a strong fit when the inventory profile, pallets, loads, operating environment, and component design work together. Push-back rack components—including carts, wheels, rails, and safety accessories—control how pallets…
Apex Packs a Punch with Great Info & New Pallet Rack Punching Guide
Comprehensive, Searchable and Easy to Navigate — that’s how we describe our new pallet rack Punching Guide. Check it out for yourself! Why a pallet rack punching guide? Pallet rack manufacturers have their individual approaches to building their respective pallet rack systems. The punches, i.e. connection points, of the pallet rack columns are often…
The Upside of Forklift Safety – Overhead Clearance Bars | Apex Safety Spotlight
Overhead Clearance Bars Are the Tops! Balancing warehouse productivity with safety is vital for warehouse management. Workers must be safe moving about and performing functions while at the same time, forklifts and other vehicles travel in the same vicinities. An easy way to improve warehouse safety and to protect pedestrians, equipment, and inventory is to…
Steady Ground: Critical Elements of Warehouse Floor Construction
When it comes to warehouse efficiency, a solid foundation is not just a metaphor. The flatness and smoothness of your warehouse floor set the stage for everything from the stability of your pallet racking to your forklifts’ ability to navigate safely, and the protection of inventory and your employees. You can have the most…
It’s All About the Pallet – Essential Design Considerations for Storage Rack Systems
What considerations go into the design of a pallet rack system? The answer is there are many, covering everything from the facility specifications, warehouse space, obstructions, and climate, to inventory specs, material handling equipment, and order fulfillment processes. But there is a foundational component that can’t be overlooked when configuring your pallet rack storage system,…
Get to Know Your Pallet Rack Columns – Material, Shape & Design
Pallet rack columns provide the vertical structure in a storage racking system. The racking system is configured by connecting front and rear columns with struts to form uprights. Then beams are connected to the uprights to form the storage bays. Columns can also provide independent vertical support (a.k.a. mono-post) in dense storage systems such as…
