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RMI standards state that inspections should be done by a qualified inspection expert, once you have made initial observations and feel you need an official inspection, please contact us at Mac Rak for a full detailed pallet rack inspection and repair.
Rack Components: Frames
Maintaining your pallet rack frames is the core of a good warehouse safety program. This article will equip you with an understanding, warehouse safety tips, and best practices to keep your warehouse safety high and keep your warehouse running efficiently.
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Rack Components: Beams
Pallet rack beams are the heavy lifters in your pallet racking system. Valuable inventory rests on these mission-critical parts in your warehouse. Yet, there are some small details that, if neglected, could cause these parts to fail. This article will reveal best practices regarding beams that every warehouse manager should know to keep your warehouse functioning safely and running efficiently.
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Rack Components: Footplates
This is part of Mac Rak’s comprehensive pallet racking inspection and repair process focusing on the pallet rack column footplate component. This is meant to serve as an educational guide to damage assessment and observations for an important component of your warehouse racking system.
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Rack Components: Struts
The overall integrity of a racking system is a sum of the strength of its individual components, including the humble strut. Struts are the bracing between the columns of the frame. Though they seem tiny and insignificant, they play a crucial role in the structure of racking systems often overlooked at significant risk.
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Rack Components: Anchors
Anchoring pallet racks is a little like building skyscrapers. Skyscrapers must be anchored to bedrock to resist unimaginable lateral wind and seismic loads. A skyscraper is only as good as its foundation, and a rack system is dependent on its anchors. Racking stability starts with the connection to the concrete floor.
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How to Inspect Racks
Warehouse safety is paramount to keep operations running smoothly and prevent damage to inventory, equipment, and most importantly, employees. Pallet rack inspections are an essential aspect of maintaining a safe warehouse environment. In this comprehensive guide on how to inspect warehouse pallet racks, we will cover… read more.
The Mac Rak Inspection Tool for Phones
Our online checklist tool turns inspections into a 5-section checklist that follows a visual guide. Step through each area of inspection for columns, anchor plates, struts, beams, and frames.
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Request a Professional Inspection
Our Mac Rak repair experts or one of our trained service partners will come to your facility and perform an official inspection. We will provide you a detailed damage report and a quote for any needed repairs.
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Inspection Forms
It is important that the inspection is directed by a certified damage rack technician. Please use these pallet racking inspection templates to gather, record and submit important information when requesting quotes for your pallet rack repair or protection project.
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Warehouse Racking Safety Poster
This poster is full of useful material for your team to preliminarily spot damage in your warehouse. It is not meant to replace expert assessment of rack damage. For expert advice call for an on-site inspection go to our page to schedule an inspection.
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User Guide for Inspections
This guide is full of useful material for your team to preliminarily spot damage in your warehouse. It is not meant to replace expert assessment of rack damage.
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OSHA Warehouse Safety Guide
Warehouse operations can present a
wide variety of potential hazards for
the worker. For warehousing establishments, the
10 OSHA standards most frequently…
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OSHA Materials Handling & Storage
The efficient handling and storing of materials are vital to
industry. In addition to raw materials, these operations
provide a continuous flow of parts and assemblies through
the workplace and ensure that materials are available when
needed. Unfortunately, the improper handling and storing of
materials often result in costly injuries. Read more
Learn About Mac Rak, USA-made
We are North America’s largest, 100% American owned and American made, pallet rack repair company, and largest provider of engineered pallet rack repair kits and racking column protection products and services. We serve the Material Handling Industry. Mac Rak makes all products in house, in Missouri, in America
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