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A plain language guide to regulations, codes, standards, and specifications, and how they affect the application of material handling equipment.
Small pallets create an opportunity for retailers, but they are not without their challenges, including safe load handling, for those in material handling. Half and quarter pallets present a challenge because they can only be moved with a single forklift tine, but physics and ANSI standards provide the answers to safe small pallet handling.
This HMI web page has been developed by member companies of the Hoist Manufacturers Institute (“HMI”), a trade association of Hoist Manufacturers, to familiarize potential hoist purchasers and users with the many different types of material handling hoists, hoist terminology, and hoist standards, as applicable in the United States, and in various countries and regions of the world.