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A regular in-house pallet racking inspection. Record each damaged component by aisle, bay and beam level, rate it green, amber or red, photograph it and set who repairs it and by when. Amber damage asks whether the rack is labelled so it is not reloaded, and red damage asks whether it has been offloaded and isolated. General checks cover load notices, floor fixings, beam locks, column guards and loads. Every question is listed below, and you can fill the live form in on this page.
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A pallet racking inspection checklist should record each damaged component by location, its green, amber or red rating and the action taken, and check load notices, floor fixings, beam safety locks, column guards, upright alignment, loads and pallets, and that aisles are clear. It should also record who is responsible for racking safety and when the racking last had an inspection by a technically competent person.
Last updated . Facts checked by the SiteSurvey team on 17 October 2026 against HSE HSG76, Warehousing and storage: a guide to health and safety (racking inspection and table 11) and SEMA, the Storage Equipment Manufacturers' Association: guide to racking inspections.
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Record bay identity, upright and beam surfaces, then a wider location view for the racking safety process.
Record the aisle, bay and rack reference before filming from a safe authorised position. Move from wide context to visible upright or beam concerns. Do not enter restricted areas, climb or disturb loads. Send findings through the site racking safety process.
From a safe position, show the aisle and bay reference so a trained reviewer can locate the rack.
A staged warehouse rack bay is shown; the actual ID is fictional.
Show accessible lower upright and floor-level protection without measuring or touching it.
The lower upright and adjacent protection are visible; impact severity is not assessed.
From floor level, show accessible beam faces and connection location without approaching a suspect rack.
A beam junction is illustrated; locking and capacity are not established.
Return to a wide bay view and note blind spots, loads or access restrictions.
A final staged bay view provides context but no safety classification.
A fictional six-page example with the four points, twelve stills from the clips, observations, follow-up actions and the limits of a visual record.
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A phone clip is a location and condition record. It cannot measure damage tolerances, confirm loading, structural capacity or classify risk. Trained internal checks and competent expert inspection remain separate under the site regime. Example footage was generated in Google Flow and the observations are scripted; no real site is shown. Walk Cam works inside any form in the app. How Walk Cam works · All visual inspections
A pallet racking inspection: damage by aisle, bay and level with green, amber and red ratings, offload actions, general checks and the date of the last expert inspection. 4 sections and 68 questions. Follow-up questions and guidance appear only when an answer calls for them, so the person on site never sees the ones that do not apply.
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The named person who manages racking safety on site and sets how often it is inspected.
From the rack drawing or the beam label, or measure it.
Run a string line from end to end under the loaded beam and measure the gap at the middle. Measure from photo gives an estimate from a photo square on to the bay with a tape held at the gap: treat it as a guide, and use the tape reading if it is near the limit.
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Set by the PRRS. Often weekly, depending on how busy the area is.
BS EN 15635:2008 and HSG76: no more than 12 months after the last expert inspection.
A completed racking inspection report, made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit: every answer, the photos, the guidance that applied and the sign-off, ready to send as a PDF.
HSE's warehousing guidance (HSG76, table 11), based on SEMA guidance, rates damage by risk. Green is within the limit: the component can stay in service, but record it and look at it again at later inspections. Amber is hazardous damage needing action as soon as possible: once the load is removed, do not reload it until it is repaired. Red is very serious damage: offload and isolate the area immediately until it is repaired. The form counts the red, amber and green items on each inspection.
HSG76 says racking with amber damage should be treated as red if it has not been repaired within four weeks. The form asks who will repair each amber or red item and by when, so the date sits next to the damage, and whether an amber rack is labelled so it is not reloaded.
HSG76 says the person responsible for racking safety should make sure inspections are made weekly or at other regular intervals based on risk assessment, with a written record, and that a technically competent person should inspect at intervals of not more than 12 months. The form records the date of the last expert inspection and shows a warning when more than a year has passed.
The person responsible for racking safety. HSG76 says this nominated person decides how often the racking is inspected to suit the warehouse, and that any damage should be reported to them straight away. The form records their name with each inspection and has a summary for them at the end.
Besides damage, the form checks that load notices are displayed, readable and match the configuration, floor fixings and the floor are sound, beam safety locks are fitted, column guards are in place, uprights are plumb, loads are within capacity and pallets sit squarely, decking is in place, aisles are clear, and no one has changed beam levels without approval.
No. This is the regular in-house inspection. The form has an option to record an expert inspection, but an inspection by a technically competent person at least every 12 months, such as a SEMA approved rack inspector (SARI), is separate and produces its own report.
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