Warehouse racking, whilst efficient for storage, presents several serious risks including racking collapse that can lead to injuries, fatalities, loss of goods and significant business disruption.
Rack Collapse Prevention is a well-known UK-based provider of innovative warehouse racking safety systems, designed specifically to prevent rack collapses, protecting employees and inventory and is installed in numerous warehouses and storage facilities across the UK, Europe, Ireland and internationally.
As one of the most effective, proven and innovative safety systems available on the market, Rack Collapse Prevention’s top-supporting safety solution is flexible and durable, suspended from a building's steel structure and attached to each leg. When a building's steel structure isn't suitable then a secondary structure is installed to form a support for the suspension cables, with the safety system never impacting structure integrity. Proved in major incidents to operate within roof structure load limits of warehouses built well within the last 15+ years, it eliminates the risk of rack collapse, worker injury, and product loss.
Rack Collapse Prevention Managing Director Craig Attwell explains: “Rack collapses have a range of causes including overloading, poor installation, lack of maintenance, damage, human error, and natural disasters.
“With warehouse racking such a vital and valuable warehouse asset, racking collapse poses significant risks to the safety of workers, inventory and the warehouse itself. To prevent rack collapses and to ensure warehouse racking safety it is essential to take precautions and use safety systems that can not only reduce but eliminate the likelihood and severity of accidents.”
In addition, Rack Collapse Prevention’s pallet racking monitoring system detects racking impacts and sends notifications via a dedicated Smartphone App, with Spy Rack recording and saving impact events, helping to locate weak areas and impact ‘hot zones’ and can work as a separate safety system or together with Rack Collapse Prevention’s warehouse racking safety system.
Added Craig: “By utilising one or both of our safety systems businesses have found that they can improve their overall warehouse safety, efficiency, compliance, and the cost-effectiveness of their warehouse racking, whilst also delivering peace of mind and confidence for their employees.
“By thinking ahead and often taking modest precautions risks can be minimised and indeed prevented and are an effective way to follow best practice.”