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Is It Shelving or Pallet Racking & What’s the Difference?

Finding the Right Storage Solution – Pallet Racking vs. Shelving Warehouse space is tight these days for a myriad of reasons. If you’re looking to get inventory and supplies off the floor and into a safer, more efficient storage solution, the good news is you have options. Shelving uses vertical space, creating open floor space…

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A Close Look at Narrow Aisle Warehouse Design

A Deep-Dive on VNA, Narrow Aisle & Double-Deep Warehouse Design What difference can a couple of feet make? Well, a lot when it comes to warehouse space configuration. Narrow aisle and very narrow aisle configurations are separated by just a few feet, but the gap between them in terms of application, cost, and efficiency can…

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How Do the New Pallet Rack Fire Codes Affect Your Rack Design?

NFPA 13 – Updated Pallet Rack Fire Codes Take Aim at Warehouse Safety The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a trusted global organization that issues fire codes and safety recommendations followed by warehouse design and installation crews. In 2020, there were approximately 1450 fires reported at warehouse properties amounting to over $283 million in…

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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…

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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. It takes labor-intensive order picking and minimizes the time it takes to travel, find, and pick items. Secondly, it optimizes your warehouse space by consolidating inventory…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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Push back vs double deep racking

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…

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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…

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