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Highlights from ProMatDX 2021
ProMatDX is the new digital event experience designed to power up manufacturing and supply chain professionals from over...
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Test Your Knowledge Quiz: Pallet Rack Safety
Online quiz games and free online trivia games are one of the most effective ways to test one’s understanding of a...
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10 Common Rack Repair Myths Debunked
If you walk through any warehouse, chances are you have witnessed impact damage on pallet racking systems. Over 85% of...
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Celebrating International Women's Day with Four of Damotech's Own
For International Women’s Day, we thought it would be great to celebrate with some of our very own talented women who are...
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6 Ways to Make Your Warehouse Go Green
Over the past couple of years, you’ve no doubt heard the terms eco-friendly, sustainable, renewable, and green. The...
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How To Identify & Assess Pallet Rack Damage
The concept of addressing rack damage seems simple: You spot a dented column or brace and you decide whether you would...
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Work Platforms and Mezzanines: What Are the Distinctions?
The size of warehouses has been significantly increasing over the years. When you think of warehouse size, the first...
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Safety Tactics To Eliminate Rack Damage In Your Warehouse
Even the smallest structural damage on your pallet racking should be investigated as it could eventually cause a racking...
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Key Lessons from 5 Chilling Rack Collapse Videos
It is a warehouse manager and worker’s worst nightmare: a sudden and harrowing collapse of a racking system. One might...
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How to Handle Hazardous Materials Safely & Prevent Warehouse Incidents
Many warehouses across North America contain or store to some degree, hazardous materials. From gas cylinders to liquid...
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Rack Bracing Damage: Repair or Replace?
If you are an owner of pallet racking systems, you are most likely no stranger to twisted or sheared upright legs,...
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Robotics, Automation & Augmented Reality in Warehousing
Warehouses have been operated conventionally for a long time. Labor workers have had to physically handle products from...
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5 Insightful Statistics Related to Warehouse Safety
In the supply chain and warehousing industry, some days may feel like a balancing act as many warehouse managers must...
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5 Essential Rack Safety Tools to Help You Succeed in 2021
As we wind down from this incredibly unusual year, anything that can make running a safe warehouse a little easier and...
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Warehouse Safety Roundup: Top 5 Blogs of 2020
Over the last year, we have shared our expertise on a variety of topics with the goal of educating those in the supply...
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Warehouse Safety Checklist: A Rack Owner's Responsibilities
As an Engineer, I buy, read, and apply North American rack design codes because that is my main focus. Rack owners are...
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Storage Rack Guards: Your First Line of Defense Against Damage
Warehouses and other industrial facilities all have two things in common: 1) they all have racking systems, and 2), these...
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Choosing the Right Pallet For Your Needs
With the invention of the first forklift truck back in 1915, skids – the early form of wooden pallets– were adapted to...
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Forklift Accidents: Causes and Prevention
Often referred to as the “workhorses” of both the warehousing and construction industries, the forklift is a powerful...
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Cheat Sheet: How to Address Rack Damage in Your Warehouse
This guest blog was originally published on MHI's website and written by Damotech's Charles Carbonneau, P. Eng.
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Five Frequent Ways Forklifts Damage Racks
Forklifts are indispensable machinery used daily in warehouses to lift and move heavy loads over short distances....
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Pallet Rack Repair: A Solution You'll Want to Consider
This guest blog was originally published on MHI's website and written by Damotech's Marc Rousseau.
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With So Many Rack Safety Products To Choose From, Where To Start?
Adopting a safety-focused mindset is an excellent start to addressing rack safety in your warehouse. But with so many...
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What to Know About Rack Damage Priority and Classification
To ensure the integrity of your pallet rack systems, it’s essential to understand the various types of damages that can...
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8 Leading Causes of Unsafe Pallet Rack Systems
Racks are highly efficient structures, but they require components to be free from damage to bear the loads placed on...
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Picking Processes for a More Productive and Efficient Warehouse
Efficiency can seem quite intangible. Certainly, the concept that getting more done for cheaper in less time is what we...
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The 5 Strategies to Improve Pallet Rack Safety in Any Warehouse
Rack safety is a complicated issue to tackle. Where should we start? Damotech recently held a webinar to address the...
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Why Aisle Width Matters When It Comes to Pallet Rack Safety
Every day, lift trucks move and retrieve palettized loads in and around storage systems. When they have limited space to...
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What Lies Beneath Your Warehouse Flooring
A defective floor slab can become a hazard to pallet racks and the forklifts operating on it. When installing new racks...
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5 signs your racks may have been damaged during an earthquake
An earthquake can generate stress and cause damage to your pallet racking systems. Before cleaning the aisles from...
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The A to Z of Rack Safety
Health and safety are certainly one of your company’s main priorities. But how do you promote it and make sure your work...
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An Engineer's Point of View on Pallet Rack Safety
This blog allows for all sorts of discussions on topics surrounding pallet racks and the role they play in the warehouse....
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Q&A with Rack Safety Expert Dan Bider, Technical Director at Damotech
Dan Bider is a busy rack specialist and Technical Director at Damotech, a company whose mission is to safeguard pallet...
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When to Inspect Pallet Racks?
Best practices in the material handling industry recommend the regular inspection of pallet rack systems in the warehouse...
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Making the Case for Pallet Rack Repair Kits
Today, we'd like to address a warehouse safety topic that concerns not only rack owners and operators, but maintenance...
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Essential KPIs to Measure the Performance of Your Warehouse
Being a warehouse manager is a balancing act, one that requires taking the right business decisions while facing whatever...
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