Not Sure If You Need A Rack Inspection?
Has your racking been inspected within the last 12 months? Australian Standards recommend annual inspections as a minimum, to record the condition of your system and prevent loss of products and harm to employees.
All businesses with pallet racking in their storage facility should be aware of the Australian Standard AS_4084.2-2023 Steel storage racking and WHS /OH&S Acts, Regulations & Codes of Practice and understand that pallet racking must have an inspection every 12 months.
Any modifications to systems should be checked by the manufacturer or a trained inspector with experience in racking design and construction.
The Australian Standard AS_4084.2-2023 – Steel Storage Racking recommends that all racking should be checked at least once a year to ensure its safe performance.
The following is an excerpt from the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 V34 – Victoria which sets out the key principles, duties and rights in relation to workplace health and safety. This provides an example of the obligations a business owner has. Check the mandatory legislation in your applicable state.
The act states:
(a) to secure the health, safety and welfare of employees and other persons at work; and
(b) to eliminate, at the source, risks to the health, safety or welfare of employees and other persons at work; and
(c) to ensure that the health and safety of members of the public is not placed at risk by the conduct of undertakings by employers and self-employed persons; and
(1) An employer must, so far as is reasonably practicable, provide and maintain for employees of the employer a working environment that is safe and without risks to health.
(a) provide or maintain plant or systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health;
(b) make arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, safety and the absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage or transport of plant or substances;
(c) maintain, so far as is reasonably practicable, each workplace under the employer’s management and control in a condition that is safe and without risks to health;
- A visual inspection of all pallet racking, walkways and signage
- Assessment in compliance to the most up-to-date requirements: Australian Standard AS_4084.2-2023
- A report of existing pallet racking with red, amber & green recommendations applied to damaged areas
- Issue a Certificate of Compliance when inspections and repairs are compliant.
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