Requirements for the installation of warehouse racks
In this article, the term “rack installation” will be understood as the entirety of activities related to introducing racks into a warehouse space.
The described guidelines apply to existing building structures that are being adapted into warehouses (assembly halls, repair shops, rented facilities, etc.) or modernized warehouse facilities where racks are being introduced to improve and mechanize high-bay storage operations. This does not apply to warehouses being designed, for which the selection of racks will be made by a warehouse technology designer during the development of the technological design of the project documentation for a new warehouse building.
The described guidelines apply to existing building structures that are being adapted into warehouses (assembly halls, repair shops, rented facilities, etc.) or modernized warehouse facilities where racks are being introduced to improve and mechanize high-bay storage operations. This does not apply to warehouses being designed, for which the selection of racks will be made by a warehouse technology designer during the development of the technological design of the project documentation for a new warehouse building.
Introducing racks into a warehouse in a spontaneous manner, without proper documentation preparation, very often ends in committing a series of errors that entail dangerous consequences. The most common effects of such actions encountered in practice are:
• scratches and cracks in the floor at the anchoring points of the rack legs, occurring after the rack is fully loaded with cargo units, caused by insufficient floor strength or poor quality of the floor surface. This can lead to the rack feet “sinking” into the floor, after which the rack begins to lose stability
• aisles between racks that are too narrow, resulting from the desire to fit the largest possible number of rack rows into the warehouse area.
• aisles between racks that are too narrow, resulting from the desire to fit the largest possible number of rack rows into the warehouse area.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2002/2.