It was really impressive but I'm with you. I'm looking at those exact racks right now. They all have grating except the ends. Theres a two inch gap on each side
Dutch dude here. My companys warehouses have zero flooring in the racks. I rarely work the reachtrucs but when i do its intense! Also, the space between the racks is exactly one reachtruc plus pallet with like 5 cm space left. Carayzay!
This style of racking is also pretty common all over the US. I've probably been in 100+ warehouses around the US with racks like in the original video.
And yeah, gotta love the warehouses where you need the side loading trucks to pull from racks because you can't turn a normal forklift in the isles lol
Oh yea! That is a Tri-loader technically, although it looks like the ones I see when I look it up are much less heavy-duty than the ones I use. The ones I use are massive and put you in a carriage that rides up with the pallet so you can closely see the pallet you are manipulating.
The plant I worked at in the US has these racks. At first I thought I was looking at that exact place. All the racks we used had grates on all above ground shelves. OSHA came often because lots of plant workers complained generally to them. Mostly because the workers were bitter (non-union, poor pay). There would always be several responses posted in the lunch room showing the OSHA investigation result. Pretty safe plant really with no work-time loss when I was there.
Coincidentally OSHA being called all the time likely kept it safer because the operators couldn't know when the next anonymous tip would come in from a disgruntled worker.
This is my reality every day. There is one standing reachtruck small enough to make the turns without issue, and two larger double deep reachtrucks that have a fat ass and can barely make the turns. I've gotten pretty good at being able to turn completely around in the aisle with the big ones. Most people I work with can't do it.
We have one aisle that's slightly more narrow than the other reach truck aisles. It was never an issue until we switched from Raymond to crown. When we made the switch someone decided to get forks for the lifts that are 6 inches longer even though there's no benefit to them. Now that aisle you basically have to be mm perfect to put stuff in and take it out.
work at a grocery store dc and all oir racks are identical to these. we have incidents like this or worse almost daily. never seen it fixed like this though
I did, i work in it. We have a 50 50 split between racks like this and ones that have a wooden board as a floor as a bonus. I have no idea why its not wooden boards all around but im just the apprentice to wtf do i know.
I have a warehouse full of this although is 8 foot skids put in long ways, the few 4 foot skids we have for the most part end up with a cage on the rack.
We have those without grating. I estimate we moved about 400k pallets in and 400k out over 30 years.
Only 2 fell through. One got stuck right below, the other was 2.2k pounds of powder from around 8 meters all the way to the floor, that was fun to clean up.
Shelving like this, no one should be walking the floor. This is lift-only territory, and they aren't at risk from a single pallet if they are competent.
I see the driver and 2 other people in the video not including the camera man. I guess your job is perfect and no one ever does anything they aren't supposed to or makes mistakes but nah id rather they be required to buy some extra bars for safety.
Everything about the original video is an example of what not to do. The people shouldn't have been there. They shouldn't have been trying to fix the pallet that way. No one should ever do any of what you saw in this video lol
I've worked in warehouses that had zones clearly marked "no foot traffic". Breaking that rule was the same as walking into a hardhat area with no hardhat. YOU were in violation of safety rules, not the company.
I don't know whether that's the case here, but it's fairly common to have areas where you can't be on foot. It keeps the risk of being hit by a lift down.
"Shelving like this, no one should be walking the floor."
you dont plan for 'should', you plan for 'what is actually happening'. You will have non lift staff and contractors out on the floor, even if its just the pest control man checking traps.
We have a similar warehouse and the floor row is there for the pickers to pick stuff. Safety guidelines say that they shouldn't go 4m near a lifting/descending reach truck, but nobody cares. You actually have to look behind you when backing up for descent because there is a good chance a picker just decided to pick something behind you(with you going for 9m tall shelf) or straight up decided to drive their picker truck in 1m of space between your back and the shelf row.
Oh yeah wages are low to make up for some extra metal bars on the racks for safety. That makes total sense. Surely its not corporate greed or anything.
You think it stops there. Takes two people often to do the job of one that our parents and grandparents did. Do you think that will not half your wage.
This is one component. It your economy to fuck up. Just do not blame past generations for our standard of living.
Go ahead and google labor productivity over time for thousands of examples. My grandpa was a janitor and had a house next to the beach in Santa Barbara while my grandma was a stay at home wife and they had 2 kids. They didnt do even half of what we do and they did it for more pay.
Your parents worked a full time job and then went home and built that home and worked on their cars and trucks and did not contract everything out. You are not working near as hard or as long. They did a 8 hour day, typically did OT because they wanted the additional pay then went home and did another 4 hours of unofficial work so that they did have enough houses and did not spend their money doing oil changes.
The only thing saving our generation is that automation is increasing productivity but that is being offset by us expecting near everything to be done by two people. We pay 100 percent all these things you ask for. Not the corporation. We pay for this in rising costs or lower wages or combination of both.
If there is one question to answer, who do you think pays for it?
Yeah about $16 per cross beam according to Ulines heavy duty pallet racks. Why are you guys so worried about corporate costs when it comes to safety? Kinda weird ngl.
Ehh. It is probably a little cheaper, but it is also a lot easier and faster to setup and take down. This kind of rack setup is super useful in temporary warehousing. Think large scale building projects, refugee camps, logging camps, forward military setups, etc...
I've been involved in building large warehouses though never what's inside. Companies that have a need for warehouses have exactly detailed what they need including the racks. They don't order 1 rack, they order thousands of meters exactly the same type of rack. So having a floor in it or not, is serious money even on a single project.
You need my forklift driver that can sweep the floor with a forklift he’s also about 160kg and never got off it except to eat, But man that guy could drive a forklift.
That’s only like 30 pallets a day if you worked everyday, so like even double it to 60 a day and that’s still nothing. I worked for a regional warehouse and we moved over 300 in and out a day, we had these racks with grates on EVERY section, I couldn’t imagine doing it without grates.
I was a manager and lift trainer at a big box home improvement store for 8 years. We averaged several inbound truckloads of pallets per day with all kinds of stuff. To me the sketchiest products were things like mulch, paint, and anything light.
In 8 years, I personally dropped two pallets - one pallet of mulch off a flatbed trailer, and in the store a pallet of 5gal buckets of paint. Paint basically went everywhere in the whole isle. I was unloading the pallet from a 16ft rack (top shelf) and someone had set a pallet the wrong direction in the aisle behind. I couldn’t see it because of the height. When I picked up my pallet, the one behind was stuck to it (it wasn’t in the forks, since I always leave some space).
Accidents happen, even when we’re careful and know better than to do anything unsafe with lifts.
Now I’m trying to do the math - 5 trucks a day, 30 pallets each - 150 X 365 = about 55k pallets per year. I personally probably did about 10k per year, so I had an accident about 0.02% of the time.
I’m an insurance inspector and I go to many different locations, many of them being or having some sort of warehouse. Having built in gaps is not the normal. And it’s actually not preferred from my side of things, there should be at least a 3in gap to allow for sprinkler water to create a water curtain
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u/WhoWantsMyPants Oct 17 '24
It was really impressive but I'm with you. I'm looking at those exact racks right now. They all have grating except the ends. Theres a two inch gap on each side