{"id":5875,"date":"2018-12-24T05:37:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T05:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:40:52","slug":"ansi-standards-on-industrial-shelving-work-platforms-and-ladders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/ansi-standards-on-industrial-shelving-work-platforms-and-ladders\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSI Standards on Industrial Shelving, Work Platforms and Ladders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Storage Manufacturers Association (SMA) industry group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/mhi\/\">MHI<\/a> reported that updates to two ANSI standards will be available for download at no charge. The standards are ANSI MH28.2-2018 and ANSI MH28.3-2018. These standards are available for download at mhi.org\/sma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSI MH28.2-2018 &#8211; Design, Testing and Utilization of Industrial Boltless Steel Shelving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This standard and companion commentary applies to industrial steel boltless shelving; boltless shelving placed on mobile carriages; multi-level boltless shelving systems such as pick modules, catwalks, and deck-overs; and for boltless shelving used in conjunction with an automated storage and retrieval system (AS\/RS).<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSI MH28.3-2018 &#8211; Design, Testing and Utilization of Industrial Steel Work Platforms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This standard applies to industrial steel work platforms.\u00a0An industrial steel work platform is typically a prefabricated free-standing non-building structure similar to a building with an elevated surface that utilizes a pre-designed framing system and is located within an industrial or similarly restricted environment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5876\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5876\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-11.33.47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-11.33.47.png 449w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-11.33.47-400x173.png 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-11.33.47-440x190.png 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SMA members are the Industry\u2019s leading suppliers of industrial storage equipment. They supply storage solutions worldwide and in virtually every major manufacturing and distribution sector.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In addition, SMA and the Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) have announced a new standard, produced as a joint effort between the two industry groups, titled \u201cStairs, Ladders, and Open-Edge Guards for Use with Material Handling Structures.\u201d MH32.1-2018 applies to fixed stairways and ladders along with guarding for elevated platforms used in material handling structures. The stairways and ladders are attached to structures such as industrial racking pick modules, decked-over platforms, industrial shelving pick modules and decked-over platforms, and free-standing work platforms. These structures are described in the ANSI MH 16.X and ANSI MH28.X series of standards. This standard is intended to serve as a reference document for other material handling equipment standards or specifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Storage Manufacturers Association (SMA) industry group of MHI reported that updates to two ANSI standards will be available for download at no charge. The standards are ANSI MH28.2-2018 and ANSI MH28.3-2018. These standards are available for download at mhi.org\/sma. ANSI MH28.2-2018 &#8211; Design, Testing and Utilization of Industrial Boltless Steel Shelving This standard and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/ansi-standards-on-industrial-shelving-work-platforms-and-ladders\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[2571,3513,1374,157,106,891,51,40,46,3514,3512,62,2238],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-ansi","tag-boltless-steel-shelving","tag-industrial-storage","tag-logistics","tag-material-handling","tag-material-handling-industry","tag-mhi","tag-modex","tag-promat","tag-steel-work-platforms","tag-storage-manufacturers-association","tag-supply-chain","tag-work-platforms"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ANSI Standards on Industrial Shelving, Work Platforms and Ladders - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/ansi-standards-on-industrial-shelving-work-platforms-and-ladders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ANSI Standards on Industrial Shelving, Work Platforms and Ladders - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Storage Manufacturers Association (SMA) industry group of MHI reported that updates to two ANSI standards will be available for download at no charge. 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