Weight Load Notices – Essential Warehouse Load Capacity Signage
Prevent overloading, ensure compliance, and protect your workforce with Beaverswood® Weight Load Notices. Designed to clearly display maximum load capacities, these high-visibility racking load notices help businesses comply with health and safety regulations while reducing the risk of structural failure in pallet racking, shelving, cantilever racking, mezzanine floors, and warehouse storage systems.
By using warehouse weight load signs, you provide clear, concise information on safe working loads, helping forklift operators, warehouse staff, and supervisors avoid overloading racking structures.
Why Choose Beaverswood® Weight Load Notices?
✅ Heavy-Duty Racking Load Signs – Manufactured from durable, long-lasting PVC to withstand industrial environments.
✅ Clearly Displays Safe Working Load Limits – Helps prevent rack failures, product damage, and workplace accidents.
✅ Ensures Compliance with Health & Safety Regulations – Meet warehouse safety standards with official racking weight limit signs.
✅ Versatile Design Options – Choose from a blank sign (no loading information), or add your company logo along with weight loading details.
✅ Custom Branding Available – Overprint your company logo, address, and contact details to reinforce professionalism and safety compliance.
✅ Optional Magnetic Fixing Strip – Easily attach storage rack weight limit signs to any metal surface for secure and flexible placement.
Product Options – Find the Right Load Capacity Notice for Your Warehouse
Blank Weight Load Notices – These signs come with blank spaces to write in weight limits using a permanent marker, offering flexibility for on-site customisation.
Branded Racking Weight Notices – Add your company branding, contact details, and safety messaging, reinforcing warehouse safety procedures.
Available in eight semi-rigid designs to suit a variety of warehouse racking systems.
Improve Warehouse Safety with Load Capacity Notices
🚛 Warehouse Load Capacity Signage – Prevent racking collapses by clearly displaying safe working load limits.
📦 Pallet Racking Weight Limit Signs – Reduce workplace accidents and stock damage by ensuring safe loading practices.
🏭 Industrial Shelving Load Capacity Labels – Help staff quickly identify maximum weight limits for shelving and storage.
⚙️ Heavy-Duty Storage System Notices – High-visibility, impact-resistant signage ensures long-term durability in tough environments.
📌 Racking Safety Signs & Labels – Make sure every racking system is clearly marked for safe operation.
Don’t Risk Overloading – Ensure Workplace Compliance
With Beaverswood® Weight Load Notices, you can prevent costly racking failures, comply with health and safety laws, and create a safer, more efficient working environment.
📢 Order today and take a proactive step towards warehouse safety and compliance!
FAQ
Are weight load notices a legal requirement in the UK?
According to
SEMA:
There is no specific legislation that requires a load sign to be placed on racking. However, there is an obligation on an employer to ensure that employees have all the information that is needed to operate the racking system safely... Without the load notice you would need to find an alternative means of transmitting all the information given on the load notice to the employees.
As such, while not an explicit legal requirement, weight load notices are the easiest and most popular way for businesses to remain compliant.
What should a weight load notice look like?
While different racking systems have different load notices, they follow a similar structure.
HSE refer to SEMA as an example of how weight load notices should be designed, and our weight load notices follow this example.
- Red circular signs with white backgrounds and black pictograms are used for prohibition.
- Yellow triangular signs with yellow backgrounds and black pictograms or text are used for warning.
- Green rectangular signs with white pictograms or text are used for instruction (though these are not used on load notices as they don't provide instructions).
- Blue rectangular signs with white pictograms or text are used for mandatory actions.
What does a weight load notice need to include?
Weight load notices should display the following information:
- Safe working load for each shelf/level
- Number of levels per bay
- Safe working load for the bay - this advises the safe limit for the whole system at one time and can often be less than the total of each shelf limit
- Height to first beam level - this is vital to determine the bay load as the bay load will reduce if the first beam is raised or removed
- Beam pitch thereafter - another key piece of information in bay load as the bay load will reduce if the pitch is increased
- Suppliers name, date supplied, and contact information
- Any other required safety information
Do I need a new weight load notice sign if I change the beams on my racking?
Potentially! Whenever racking is altered, the system should be inspected and the weight load notice updated if required.
What do I do if my racking system doesn't have a load notice?
To ensure compliance with Health and Safety and
PUWER regulations, racking should have weight load notices installed before use.
However, if you're racking doesn't have a load notice, you should cease using the racking and contact the supplier of your racking system. They will have information on the type, strengths, and configuration of the racking, which will impact the load capacities.
Once you've calculated safe working load limits, you should organise for weight load notices to be installed on the racking before using it again.
How do I calculate the safe working load limits?
To accurately calculate safe work load limits, you'll need:
- Width of the bay
- Type of beam (open or box)
- Beam dimensions (width and depth)
- Frame dimensions (height and width)
- Vertical beam pitch (height of each beam from the floor)
- Upright duty (commonly stamped on the upright)
However, depending on the particular design of your racking, other information may be required.
As a matter of best practice, you should always refer to your racking manufacturer/supplier for details and assistance in calculating safe load limits.
