ATLANTA, GA and ESSEX, MA — March 8, 2024 — Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc., an innovator in the design and manufacturing of pallet drop safety gates that provide fall protection in distribution centers, warehouses and manufacturing and material handling facilities, is expanding its custom engineering design services, and to meet growing demand for development, the company has added a new building on its current property in Essex, Mass.   In addition, the company is exhibiting at MODEX 2024 in Atlanta where it will be showcasing its manually operated Roly ® safety gate with the product containment netting. A first-time MODEX exhibitor, the company will have its head of engineering in the booth to discuss both existing safety gate models as well as areas in which a custom pallet drop gate may be needed.   All of the pallet drop safety gates manufactured by Mezzanine Safeti-Gates come in standard single-wide and double-wide sizes. Additionally, the gates can be manufactured in stainless steel or powder-coated steel and finished in any color. Custom engineering can be obtained for standard designs with uncommon pallet drop area sizes or for completely new safety system designs.   “With advances in automation, we are seeing a greater need for custom-engineered safety gate designs,” said Chris Conway, vice president, engineering at Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc. “We are getting more requests to design pallet drop gates that not only protect employees, but also the equipment being used within the facility. In addition, companies are getting very creative in using their current facility space as the applications shift, so many times gates need to be designed for unique spaces.”   Some of the unique custom engineered pallet drop safety gates created recently by the company include: • TCA safety gate design with product containment netting on both the ledge and rear gates, as well as the two sides; the customer needed to keep material completely inside the pallet drop area while ensuring employees have no access to the ledge at any time. • Roly safety gate design that opens and closes with the lift within a vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC) that protects robots from falling into the shaft as materials move through levels. • Roly safety gate design for an automated parking garage   All custom designed safety gates thoroughly tested to they fully comply with OSHA’s Walking Working Surface Fall Protection regulations as well as ANSI fall protection standards. Used in thousands of locations throughout the world, pallet drop safety gate systems offered by Mezzanine Safeti-Gates can be equipped with power, remote operation, radio frequency sensors and photo eyes. To learn more about custom engineered mezzanine safety gates, visit www.mezzgate.com/index.php/models/custom-jobs.    About Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc. Headquartered in Essex, Mass, Mezzanine Safeti-Gates is an innovator in the design and manufacturing of safety gate systems for material handling, warehousing and manufacturing operations. Celebrating 40 years in business in 2022, the company designed the first dual-gate pallet drop safety system, the Roly® mezzanine safety gate, which has been installed in thousands of facilities across the world. The company offers a full line of pallet gates, designs for loading docks, dock-lifts and custom-engineered solutions. All gates in the company’s product suite can be customized to meet specific facility requirements and meet OSHA, ANSI and IBC fall protection standards. A member of MHI’s ProGMA and MHEDA, the company can be reached via telephone at 978.768.3000, email at sales@MezzGate.com or on the web at www.MezzGate.com.   Contact Jen Conway jen@mezzgate.com 978-884-5210

One grocery customer had multiple applications in which employees used lifts in dock operations to transfer material from delivery trucks to ground level. Fall protection was needed on every lift employees used to handle material. Because each lift was in a fairly unique environment, our team created multiple safety gate configurations based on the operation of each lift. The Dock-Lift safety gate configuration most popular in the grocery chain was one in which the gates moved in a crossing-guard style pattern. As the lift elevates, the gates automatically close and lock into place.

A large flavor and fragrance company needed to secure the ledges of their pallet drop areas. Employees were working at levels over ten feet off of the ground in order to accommodate the large hoppers being used in the operations. Employees picked from pallets at the ledge, and then dumped bags of ingredients into hoppers for processing; this operation invited employees towards to the unguarded ledges and lifting heavy bags of ingredients from that location. In addition, the material was comprised of food products, so any guarding solution would have to be manufactured out of stainless steel with specific sanitary requirements.

A production facility had areas on elevated mezzanines that needed to be secured, and the production area had different safety needs than the pallet drop areas. One area was configured for loads up to three pallets wide, while others had tall loads that needed to be fed into a production platform. In addition, some of the gates needed to be power operated so the fork lift truck drivers could control the gates from below.

A large distribution center that fulfills millions of orders each week needed a fall protection solution. The facility’s operations utilized several pick modules in their operations where staged pallets were picked by an operator at the ledge, and empty pallets and totes were staged for removal. The safety manager knew that they needed a dual-gate system to meet industry standards and regulations, as well as to keep employees working on the upper levels safe.

A leading national pharmacy/heath service provider was concerned that their employees were exposed to fall hazards while working along the ledges of their multi-level picking modules. As their operation requires employees to pick from pallet locations along the length of the platform, there was a need to proactively secure the ledges.

Lift-out gates used to secure mezzanine pallet access areas were constantly being left open for a leading provider of products and services supporting the health care industry. In the distribution centers for this $38 billion company (where products for patient care are developed, manufactured and packaged) elevated platforms used opening in the guardrails to allow palletized material to be lifted and stored. “We were using „lift-out? mezzanine guardrail sections,” said the company?s Facilities Project Manger. “These sections were heavy and cumbersome. We needed to find a simple and cost-effective means to ensure employee safety without negatively affecting production.”