Mezzanine Safeti-Gates: Pallet Flow Safety Gate

Don’t let your pallet flow lanes present your employees with a fall protection hazard. 

If you haven’t installed fall protection devices on the pallet drop areas off multi-level pick modules with flow lanes, there is a safety hazard in your facility. While employees are not invited to walk onto pallet flow lanes, they will if there is a pallet that is stuck or if flow is otherwise obstructed.

Pallet flow systems can be very complex, with multiple elevated flow lanes within the rack system. When employees work on elevated levels in picking operations and have access to the ledges, fall protection is of utmost importance and guarding is needed.

We offer two different pallet flow safety gates can provide fall protection and employee safety. Each has it’s own advantages.

Self-Closing Swing Gates:

The self-closing swing gate design for pallet flow lanes opens automatically when the pallet is pushed into position on the pallet flow rails, and closes automatically when the pallet flows into the picking position of the system. The design prevents the gate from swinging outward, creating a fall protection barrier. This pallet flow safety gate design works best in multi-level pick modules in which multiple deep pallets are pushed into flow systems. This gate style features a hingeless design, so there is very little lifetime maintenance.

Rack Supported Multiple Pallet Deep Roly Safety Gates:

Rack Supported Roly pallet drop safety gates designed to fit multiple pallets deep work extremely well for pallet flow fall protection, especially within cluster picking applications because they take up limited space within the rack system. In cluster picking operations, there are typically one or two flow lanes in a bay with an aisle between the lanes. Employees on the platform enter the lanes to pick from various pallets on either side of the aisle, putting items on a takeaway conveyor to be packaged and shipped.

The dual-gate systems attach directly to the rack uprights in rack systems or pick modules, which maximizes space in the area and creates a secure connection without having to anchor the gate into the decking. The safety gate can be designed to match the depth of the pallet flow lane to capture multiple pallets.

The extra deep dual-gate system prevents pallets holding the gates open when the lane is full and creates a completely enclosed workstation while providing fall protection for the workers in picking positions and around the empty pallet or tote return bays. When the ledge gate is open the system also prevents the pallets from being pushed into the legs of the operator on the platform because they are restricted from the bay access while the areas are being loaded.

The Roly pallet flow safety gate design can also be power operated and include product containment netting.