Ever wonder how to clean warehouse racking? If you operate or run a warehouse, you know how dirty they can get daily and nowhere is more apparent than on your industrial storage racks.
Over a day they can be victim to dirt and grime from machinery, vehicles, accidents and even workers, not to mention stored products that can spill, leak and leave an impression. Most warehouses have a professional cleaning entity that takes care of a majority of the warehouse, but it is worth ensuring that pallet racking and other storage systems are kept equally as clean.
Why It’s Important
Keeping a warehouse clean, and more to the point keeping your warehouse storage equipment clean is ensuring all of your stock dust and dirt free. If you make a point in keeping your racking clean, you are ensuring your goods are safe from damage or dirt affecting them.
This ensures that the products leave the warehouse in the same condition that they arrived and reduces any complaints about damaged stock whilst in storage.
Start from the Ground Up
A lot of the dust and dirt that gets onto racking comes from floor level, which sits on a specialist resin-mix floor paint which protects the floor and ensures mobility from forklifts and picking trucks when handling the product.
This floor requires regular sweeping and vacuuming and the removal of any obstructions, before applying a mop with warm soapy water to pick up dust and dirt. This plays a huge part in helping to keep your racking clean.
Think About Your Type of Racking
Depending on the kind of commercial shelving you have in your storage facility, it can be constructed from several different materials – which is information you need to know in how to keep it clean.
Once you know what the material is you will need to find a suitable cleaning material for it. Whilst most shelving and racking can be cleaned with a mixture of a damp rag or household cleaner, you need to be sure that whatever you use does not affect the racking, such as if your racking has a wooden shelving layer that can be dampened by any product.
Health and Safety
Even a procedure of cleaning your racking has to take health and safety measures seriously. Ideally, you would not undertake the cleaning on your own, and have another person spotting you when working from height. If your company has a mobile elevated platform or cherry picker, be sure to use it when cleaning at elevated levels.
If you are looking to replace existing pallet racking, commercial shelving, or wondering how to clean warehouse racking, contact the team at Monarch shelving today.
