Racking accessories allow you to customise your racking and fixed shelves to better suit the space and your company’s requirements. They range from shelving fixing elements that ensure the shelves are fixed safely and securely through to extension bays for certain types of racking. If your shelving requirements have altered since you first installed your racking, there may be ways to accommodate your new needs without a complete overhaul of your shelving system. For instance, retro-fit doors and drawers are available for some shelving units, meaning that you can isolate specific sections of your racking if necessary. There are numerous racking accessory options that can improve your workplace in small and yet tangible ways.

Shelving safety equipment is often the unsung hero of a busy warehouse or manufacturing environment. Health and safety features that are added to racking such as brake rollers for roller tracks and spaces for back-to-back pallet racking storage ensure that boxes and pallets remain where they’re supposed to be. This avoids trapped fingers behind pallets or the roller track system speeding up and losing items from the track. This ensures that little tick in our warehouse risk assessments. There are numerous safety additions that you can add to your shelving units. Popular accessories including shelf stiffeners that provide protection against unintentional lifting and support bars that help reduce any deflection to a minimum.

Different businesses have different uses for their shelving units, and these requirements may also shift over time. Therefore, it’s important that there are various racking accessories on offer to help you make the most of your racking units. These can range from dividers that allow you to demark sections of your racking through to inclined and floor level shelves. Garment hanging kits are available for businesses within relevant sectors, while suspension file kits are suitable for any administration environment or one where documentation must be kept nearby. Column guards are another popular racking accessory as they fulfil the legal requirement to install them at the end of each row of racking.