Congratulations to KERAMIDA’s Dan Engling, Director of Industrial Hygiene Services, for his article on storage rack safety published in the November 2019 issue of Modern Casting Magazine, a publication by the American Foundry Society (AFS).

As Mr. Engling’s article points out, “Storage racking has become a must-have, business-critical fixture for nearly all manufacturing and distribution operations in the U.S. However, despite the considerable contact time between employees and this apparatus, employers often neglect to maintain and protect storage racks as well as they should.”

The article covers both OSHA regulatory references for general industry, 1910.176(b) and 1910.159(c)(10); the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) MH16.1 standard; and OSHA’s PIT standard (1910.178). Topics also include what to do if a rack is damaged and what issues typically present themselves at foundries which make them particularly susceptible to increased risk of rack failure.

Click here to read the full article on Modern Casting.