Distribution and fulfillment companies are always looking for ways to maximize their spaces, so they frequently use mezzanines and elevated workstations to fill their buildings to capacity. After a safety audit, a major cosmetic company contacted their trusted safety distributor to provide the following safety solutions: a staged inflow of palletized bulk products for their pick/pack operation and protection for their employees from the open work edges created after pallets clear the rolling racks. To meet all the company’s needs, the operations were broken down into the two phases: product inflow and empty pallet outflow.

For the inflow, a version of our standard Pallet Flow Gate was chosen. These one-way gates allow full pallets to be loaded from the aisle side of sloped roller racks and rolled toward the picking stations. The full pallets act as a barrier until they roll clear of the gates.