Pallet Rack Inspection Checklists Can Be as Easy as a Forklift Inspection…What?

How often do you think about pallet rack inspection? Pallet racks are the silent workhorse of the operation taking abuse from forklifts turning tight corners, getting too close in narrow aisles and/or constant bumps from carts, order pickers, and anything else moving in the facility.

Pallet racks are most times vertical storage units that has a capability of holding and storing enormous amounts of weight. However, with every forklift impact the metal structure can become compromised. The forklift operator may or may not tell you or report when the pallet rack and forklift truck have been impacted. So, what can you do?

Inspections.

Pallet Rack Inspection Checklist

Pallet racks inspections can be conducted as often as you want. Putting a process in place for regular weekly or monthly inspection can keep damages down to a minimum. Most companies use a clipboard with a checklist to accomplish this task, but SIERA.AI believes turning it digital can give you better insights into the ongoing condition of the racking system.

What are the benefits for digitizing the pallet rack inspection checklist?

• • A smartphone or tablet can be used to scan a QR code on the rack and start an inspection
  • All answers to the checklist can be stored in the cloud (e.g., SIERA.AI Dashboard). Here, you will be able to identify trends as it pertains to impacts, collisions, and damage.
  • Get answers to your questions such as: Are the racks plumb and level? Is there damage? Is there deflection? 
  • Then, pictures of the damage can be taken and sent along electronically with the checklist report.

Now you can keep within reach, current information for managing damage and health of the pallet rack infrastructure. 

Now keep the inspections going.

Want to reduce pallet rack damage proactively?

Get Impact Monitoring & Tracking for your forklifts

If you’re wondering if the forklift had anything to do with the damage on the racking system, impact monitoring will tell you exactly that. To read more about the benefits of forklift impact monitoring, click here.

SIERA.AI S2 is a forklift monitoring solution can be mounted to any forklift and report impacts that are greater than the limits you specify. It captures the critical information and reports it in the Dashboard. Now you have a great way of managing the impacts, knowing what happened and make adjustments.

Take a look for yourself. It’ll pay for itself…month after month.