Summary of Innovation
The new Roly® product containment mezzanine safety gates are the only single solution that provides fall protection for both people and products in pallet drop areas. Material handling and warehousing facilities are adding multi-level rack and other product storage systems, and pallet drop areas are often picked from using pallet jacks. This can loosen products in the drop area, leaving them at risk to fall from upper levels: employees, robots and other equipment below are at risk for injury and damage. The Roly® Product Containment safety gate design eliminates both the risk of employees and products falling from ledges of pallet drop areas in pick modules or large rack storage systems.
Compliant with OSHA fall protection regulations, Roly Product Containment safety gates utilize ledge gates to keep employees from the drop area edge, and netting systems to contain anything larger than two (2) inches in the drop area. When the pallet drop area is being loaded, the netting system on the ledge side extends up and into the system out of the way for pallets to be moved into place for picking. Netting on the rear side gate extends from the ground to the top frame of the gate, keeping employees’s hands out of the loading zone. When the pallet area is ready for picking, the rear side gate closes with the netting extending from the ground to the top of the gate frame, preventing products from falling, decreasing the risk of damage while being picked or moved from the area.
Innovation Statement
The Roly® Product Containment safety gate design is the only pallet drop gate that eliminates both the risk of employees and products falling from ledges of pallet drop areas in pick modules or large rack storage systems.
In addition, the netting on the OSHA fall protection compliant safety gates prevent employees from getting their hands into the loading zone when the machines that are increasingly loading and unloading pallets from drop areas.
Applicability
Product containment for the full line of OHSA compliant Roly® pallet drop safety gates are the only solution that protects both people and product by using fall protection netting on ledge gates - protecting the pallet drop area without impeding on space.
| Posted Date | 1/09/24 |
| Contact | Aaron Conway |
| Contact Email | aaron[at]mezzgate.com |
| Category | Best Innovation of an Existing Product |