Pallet racking

Selective pallet rack systems provide easy accessibility to all products at all times - important if the inventory is rapidly depleted and restocked (called quick turnover).

A wire-guided system consists of a wire embedded in the concrete floor that provides tracking for the reach-truck.

Fully adjustable system flexibility and space saving aisles can be manipulated as one to give the greatest amount of pallet storage locations.

To create the ideal pallet racking system, several considerations should be taken into account: Some of the most common types of pallet rack systems used include: Mobilized storage system has helped many organizations reduce or eliminate new building construction costs, auxiliary warehouses, building expansions, and decrease ongoing operational costs (lighting, energy, insurance) by redistributing the use of their storage floor space.

'It is especially important to have highly visible warning signs if the pallet rack system is used in retail environments, such as wholesale centers, where the public is present.

Regular inspection of pallets for broken or fractured planks or stringers, protruding nails, and missing support blocks is essential.

Obstructing the end of aisles by staging pallets in these areas can cause severe and potentially fatal injuries and accidents.

Generally, the items stored are boxed goods stacked on pallets which are placed on the rack.

However, there are instances where an aisle way is designated along a row of pallet rack for pedestrian or other traffic and not for operational access by the lifting or retrieval device.

[4] In these situations, load containment systems are added to the designated aisle way side of the pallet rack to prevent or control any item from falling off of the back of the rack system or potentially falling on and injuring a person in the aisle.

Safety netting has found widespread industrial use in load containment, driven in part by the post-war expansion of warehouse distribution systems.

Widely accepted as an alternative to metal or other solid barrier systems, load containment safety netting provides a light weight, high-strength, easily customizable means to protect goods and personnel while allowing airflow, humidity control and clear visibility within sectioned containment areas.

Distributors found steel wire mesh panels were a viable alternative to netting containment systems.