Hi All,

Does anybody have a SSOW and accompanying RA for recovering stock from pallets that have collapsed or been pushed off of their supporting beams that they could share? I'm looking to include use of a MEWP but just wondering if anyone has examples of how they tackle the specifics.

Thanks in advance,

John

Used to have this issue in a previous life with high bay racking. You can sometimes get away using a high level order picker, but we mainly used a scissor lift.

Normally you wouldn't wear a harness and lanyard in a scissor lift but as you might need to lean out a bit we got the Operatives to wear one (they don't all have anchor points though)

Depending on the stock, we would sometime use a forklift to lift an empty pallet to the scissor lift level and hand ball the stock from the racking onto the pallet. The biggest issue was sometimes getting stock that had fallen down the back or replacing the back bar if it had been damaged.

For this we would use a cherry picker. You can use a harness system and a working platform which can be placed on the racking below.

Again, been there done that, I used to work for a company that transported tiles, which tended to be on crappy white pallets that broke given the chance.  So it was a case of manually re-stacking the goods onto stronger pallets, it's a pain in the bottom. 

There is apparently a lifting box that wraps around a pallet, seen it on the internet but not in real life, so that might be another solution, if you find it.