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So, I am looking at putting together a formal list of all of our annual inspections and I've come to our racking. Now its only 3 shelves high and does not store pallets, just our measuring jigs.
Its not high volume warehouse stuff, its litrtally just storage, some of which may not move for months. So, does it require an annual inspection in the same way that the HSE "recommend" that you do for pallet racking? Just as a background, this racking was put up internally, not SEMA or anything trained, no loading calcs (some of the jigs can be heavy), no monthly insections and no one can tell me the dates some of it went up. It can't stay this way so I need a plan of action. I was going to suggest a business case for the business to have a through inspection by a SEMA inspector and get internal training completed for monthly checks. That would give us a baseline inspection and then we ourselves keep on top of it monthly? That way we would not need the annual inspection as we could evidence that we were regularaly inspecting it???? Thoughts?
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For me, I would look at your risk assessment for the areas in which you have shelving, what you have stored there (COSHH items?), how often the area is accessed and by whom.
It may be good practise to inspect shelves for loading deflections or other damage, likewise the uprights that support the shelves shoudn't be buckled and all cross-bracing should be in place annd secure. Some shelving systems have locking pins or other fasteners to retain the shelves to the uprights - these should be present and undamaged. A simple checklist could be developed and used for inspections, if your risk assessment shows this as mitigation.
HSE have a guide HSG76 which may be worth a browse.
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Hand loaded shelving /racking does require checks the same as pallet racking. The red amber green principle .If you would like an example PM me please.
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I looked at this the other year and the answer I got from my investigation is that racking is loaded / unloaded via machine and shelving by hand as a general principle. Also shelving will have a solid metal / wood etc place to put things and racking more open.
Racking companies I found liked to muddy the water a bit. But a lot of sites gave the above difference, example below usual disclaimer I have nothing to do with this site, and there are loads of other examples that give the same.
http://www.murraymh.com/industrial-shelving-vs-pallet-racking-whats-the-difference/ There is not statutory requirement to inspect Racking or use SEMA, but it is recommended in the guidance HSG76. It pretty much only refers to shelf twice and as a generic term. But I don’t consider IMHO that shelving falls into the same category of needing SEMA to install or inspect. However, depending exactly what you are going to store on the shelving, you may want to carry out inspections either using SEMA or yourself (employee to look for damage etc) to cover your general duty of not hurting people. Knowing the weight, it can hold is generally good, as even a lot of light loads can add up.
I think we must be careful not to gold plate the safe use of shelving with that expected for racking (unless appropriate to do so).
You should now be able to decide where your set up sits with the above and how far is reasonably practical.
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