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Stillages and LOLER: The Complete Compliance Guide to Safe Use in Lifting Operations

Ask ten warehouse managers whether their stillages fall under LOLER and you will get ten different answers. Some assume every steel container in the building needs a six-monthly inspection certificate;…

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PUWER and Stillages: A Practical Guide to Workplace Equipment Compliance

If you own, hire out or simply use stillages, cages, post pallets or trolleys anywhere in Great Britain, one set of rules sits underneath everything you do with them: the…

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Stillage Safety in the Workplace: Handling, Training, Reporting and Incident Investigation

Stillages do a great deal of quiet, heavy lifting in British industry. They hold engine blocks, sheet metal, gas cylinders, textiles and finished goods; they get stacked three high, craned…

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Keeping Stillages Stable: Safe Stacking, Storage and Collapse Prevention

A collapsing stack of loaded stillages is one of the most avoidable — and most serious — incidents in a UK warehouse or yard. A single toppled steel container can…

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Choosing and Designing the Right Stillage: A Complete Buyer’s and Design Guide

A stillage is one of those pieces of equipment that quietly makes or breaks a warehouse. Get it right and goods move faster, stack safely, survive transit and last for…

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How to Get an Accurate Stillage Quote: The Technical Information We Need

Ask three different suppliers to quote for a “heavy-duty steel stillage” and you’ll get three wildly different prices — not because one is trying to fleece you, but because each…

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Why Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Matters in Stillage Design

Modern stillages must be safe, reliable, and fully compliant. At Lowe Stillages & Cages, we harness advanced digital tools like Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to uphold these standards. FEA allows…

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Heavy Manufacturing- Enhancing Efficiency and Cost Savings

Client: JCB Earthmovers Overview: Earthmovers JCB (JCB EM) is one of the largest companies in the heavy Manufacturing industry field in which they specialises in the production of large excavators.…

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Navigating the Rigorous Terrain of Nuclear Material Handling

The guide below is a summary of the ONR (Office of Nuclear Regulation) Technical Assessment Guide NS-TAST-GD-056 (Issue 7.1) on Nuclear Lifting Operations. The introduction and purpose of the Technical…

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