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; others assume LOLER has nothing to do with stillages at all. Both positions can land you on the wrong side of the Health and Safety…
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 Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, universally shortened to PUWER. It is not a niche or optional standard. PUWER applies to almost every…
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 between floors, dragged onto lorries and left out in the yard through a wet winter. Because they are so ubiquitous and so robust, it is…
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 weigh several hundred kilograms, and when it goes, it rarely goes alone. The good news is that stillage stability is almost entirely a matter of…
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 years. Get it wrong and you inherit crushed product, failed lifts, wasted floor space and a steady drip of replacement costs. The trouble is that…
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 has quietly made its own assumptions about size, load, finish and certification. A vague enquiry produces a vague quote, and a vague quote almost always…