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hardware or other pieces of the system
are missing, for example. They will also
assess any modifications that may have
been made to the system to ensure those
changes did not affect its safety, among
other issues.
Clapp’s work at the Rack Manufacturers
Institute aims to help companies determine how frequently their storage racking should be inspected. RMI, an industry group within the trade association
MHI, offers guidelines and standards for
storage racks; Clapp says its document
Considerations for the Planning and Use of
Industrial Steel Storage Racks is a guideline that includes practical recommendations for rack maintenance and inspection. RMI has developed storage rack
standards for more than 50 years, and
its most recent—RMI/ANSI MH16.1-
2012—serves as the default standard
for storage rack implementation for the
International Building Code. The group’s
R-Mark Certification program denotes
manufacturers that have demonstrated
the knowledge and skill required to meet
the latest RMI standard for pallet storage
racks, according to Clapp.
REPAIRED AND READY FOR DUTY
RMI emphasizes that rack safety and
inspection is everyone’s responsibility and that damage to racks should be
reported immediately. Clapp adds that
any damage to the structure should be
repaired or the components replaced, no
questions asked.
“The reason we say that is, again, [indus-
trial storage racks are] high-performance
structures. We are asking the steel to do
every bit of its capability, so any damage
will degrade its performance—maybe not
enough to collapse the system, but you
never know. So we recommend inspec-
tion, and to repair any damage found.”
Companies should work with a rack
engineer (usually a representative from
the product’s manufacturer or the sys-
tems integrator) to repair or replace dam-
aged racks and components. Damage can
include impacts to the frame or other
portions of the rack (usually from a fork-
lift truck) as well as loose or missing
hardware and anchors. The rack engineer
can evaluate damage to determine if there
is a safety concern; in those cases,
the rack should be unloaded until
the repair can be made, according
to RMI.
Such issues are likely to gain
prominence, experts add, during a
time when most warehouses and
DCs are working to get more prod-
ucts out the door faster than ever.
“A lot of companies are realizing
that safety is good business,” Gibbs
explains. “It’s really just a matter of
what priority [the company] gives
to [rack safety], and I’ve seen an
increase in the priority most are giving it.”
