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6 Steps to a Spotless Safety Record | Apex Safety Spotlight
Stop for a minute and think about trash. Every day your goal is to meet demand, but no matter what systems you’ve installed to make that happen, sloppy, messy, carelessness can stand in the way of success… and cost you a bundle in efficiency and worker claims. If you think about it for even just…
Warehouse Fire Safety Compliance | Apex Safety Spotlight
Warehouse Fire Safety –Compliance and Beyond! Compliance with established warehouse fire safety codes is a given. The codes are essential and designed to prevent dangerous warehouse conditions that could lead to a fire. Codes also ensure that systems design and suppression measures are in place to enable an evacuation of personnel should a fire begin….
What are the Most FAQs about Apex Rack Repair App?
Apex Rack Repair App is Ready to Supply the Answers The Apex Rack Repair App harnesses the powerful technology of today to streamline and perfect the traditional warehouse pallet rack inspection. By simplifying the process, we hope to make rack safety inspections more routine to improve overall warehouse safety and catch potential danger before…
Transverse Vs. Longitudinal Flue Spaces
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), there are two types of flue spaces to consider when designing a pallet racking storage system for your warehouse: Transverse and Longitudinal Flue Spaces. See example below. Transverse Flue Space: Orientating yourself towards the racking face, this is the space between the product being stored parallel…
Coming to Terms with the Material Handling Word Soup – Pallet Rack Glossary
Apex Shares Helpful Pallet Rack Glossary While no business is immune to confusion and mistakes due to miscommunication, we find that common terms and phrases are anything but common in the material handling & warehousing sector. Given that the average facility has potentially millions of moving parts, it’s critical that your team rely on a…
Give Your Pallet Rack a Little Space – The 411 on Row Spacers
Pallet rack row spacers can take the form of steel bars, channels, or rods. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be painted, unfinished or galvanized. They connect upright to upright in configurations where rows of pallet rack are positioned back-to-back while allowing space between them. Why is any of that…
New East Coast Facility Better Serves Expanding Pallet Rack Market
Welcome to our New Quick Ship Warehouse in Emporia, Virginia which opened for business earlier this year. With this new facility we have over 45,000 sq. ft. of storage space to support Apex’s growing new and used pallet rack business. Just head to our website Inventory page. There you can search for new and like-new pallet…
What’s the Net for Guarding Your Pallet Rack? | Apex Safety Spotlight
Secure Pallet Rack Content Easily & Economically with Safety Netting Pallet rack netting is a smart, economical safety accessory attached at higher rack levels to prevent inventory, cartons or debris from falling through the rack system. Safety netting is the umbrella term used for all net-based rack guarding methods used to enhance warehouse safety…
Drop the Welding Torch & Order Your Rack Repair Kit | Apex Safety Spotlight
Welded Rack Repairs vs Rack Repair Kit – Why It’s a No Contest Battle Pallet rack damage that is determined significant enough to compromise the integrity of the system requires repair… that is something we can all agree upon. We should also agree that when it comes to the actual pallet rack repair there is…
Double-Deep Pallet Rack – Design Tips from the Apex Experts
Double-Deep Pallet Rack is a two-deep version of the standard selective pallet rack, commonly used to boost pallet density for high-volume products. Double-deep maximizes warehousing space by reducing the number of aisles while increasing pallet storage; however, it should also be noted that these systems require a deep-reach forklift to access the rack system. Designing…
