Polymer barriers are preferred in all kinds of industrial environments. Learn more about what they are, their benefits and the applications where they work best.

Acoustic Curtain Walls partition off separate sound zones while protecting employee hearing and enhancing worker comfort. Learn how today!

The food and beverage industry faced numerous challenges this year. As a facility manager, you might find yourself with questions about the integrity of your products and daily operations that are rippling through the entire supply chain. At Rite- Hite we understand the challenges faced by the food and beverage industry. That’s why we evaluate options and implement effective, compliant solutions for your loading dock and in-plant needs.

Explore 4 of the latest trends in cold storage technology including FSMA regulations, automation, fall protection, and energy efficiency initiatives.

The phenomenon known as Sweating Slab Syndrome occurs when moisture collects on a surface (usually concrete), creating slippery conditions that pose a danger to workers, equipment, and products. If you’re struggling with slick floors in your warehouse, learn how HVLS fans can help.

Material handling and in-plant equipment is utilized across all types of industries and is available to suit all types of applications and address a variety of needs. At Rite-Hite, we make it our business to help you identify specific challenges, evaluate the options, and provide the products and services that are required to run your operation efficiently. Download any of our essential guides to help you learn best practices for your industry.

What are loading dock personnel and safety managers doing to help decrease risks without hurting productivity? Let’s look at 6 of the top dock safety innovations as we head into 2024.

Explore automation's impact on the loading dock. Learn about key loading dock considerations, partner collaborations, and Rite-Hite's expertise. 

Our cleanroom doors are specifically designed and engineered to maintain high performance while adhering to cleanliness standards. Learn more today!

Our industrial clean room sliding doors are designed for use in clean room environments, where control over particulate contamination is essential.

Cool tips to make warehouses, manufacturing facilities and distribution centers more productive, comfortable, and safer places to work during hot weather when you don’t have air conditioning.

There is no cookie-cutter approach to designing the right loading dock layout. Accounting for the truck drive approach outside of the building, the standard loading dock height and openings, and the right sized staging area can bring a new level of safety and productivity to your operations.

Whether you use roll-up doors, high speed or overhead and dock doors, the appropriate service and maintenance is essential to keeping an efficient business.

Are you considering the purchase of a loading dock shelter for your facility? Whether your company has been at the same location for decades or is moving to a new facility, ensuring that you select the correct loading dock enclosure for your needs is crucial.

Dock leveler capacity standards help ensure the safest product possible, translating performance ratings into customer benefits. Learn how today!

Converting to a hydraulic leveler allows for simple, ergonomic push button operation while providing a high level of safety. Learn more today!

It is no secret that there is a lot of traffic at the loading dock, and there’s no doubt that the drive approach is a dangerous place for pedestrians to be. With the need to open trailer doors, chock tires, lower landing gear, place trailer stands and maintain dock equipment, sometimes people find themselves without a choice to put themselves in a dangerous position.

Customizing a loading dock door is rare, but it can be done! We’ll walk you through standard sizes and how you can customize an overhead door for your facility.

Ensuring the smoothest transition from the warehouse floor, the dock leveler lip chamfer can be adjusted to prevent dock shock and increase safety.

From wheel-based restraints and rotating hooks to vertical barriers and stabilizing trailer restraints, when you choose a Dok-Lok from Rite-Hite, we guarantee each piece of live saving equipment is expertly designed with must-have features!

Overall, the smartest vehicle restraint is the one that best fits your application needs. Whether manual or automatic, it is important that your choice maintains constant communication inside and out and facilitates additional safety solutions all while keeping your loading dock efficient and safe.

With the worker shortage continuing and months of winter right around the corner, the pressure to keep vehicles on the road when it snows is mounting. Sending trucks and trailers out without removing rooftop snow puts vehicles on the road quickly, but it’s a management decision that comes with risks. Fleet managers need to know the impact of a decision to ignore rooftop snow removal from their trucks, trailers, and buses. Leaving snow and ice inta...

Improve trailer load times, leverage loading dock communication and create clarity with Rite-Hite's® Dock Communication Software.

Help create a safer work environment and protect workers from serious injury by understanding the terminology associated with OSHA’s Machine Guarding Standards.

Maintaining a high level of productivity at the loading dock starts with knowing what to look for. Continue reading about 3 of the biggest productivity halting problems.

When customers are waiting for deliveries, getting your fleet onto the road consistently, quickly and efficiently is paramount for business every day of the year. Winter snow, slush, and ice on the rooftops of your fleet don’t have to be a roadblock. Fleet manager, Dusty Moran talks about performance of the Scraper Systems FleetPlow Model 440T for snow removal from box trucks and trailer rooftops.

In an economy with more job openings than available workers, employees can afford to be picky about where they work and how long they stay. For fleet managers and administrators who want to recruit and retain good people, every aspect of the transportation plan factors into worker satisfaction. FleetPlow automated snow-removal machines can remove some of the stress of worker recruitment and retention.

Use our savings calculator to compare the yearly operational costs associated with manual clearing of snow from your fleet vs automated clearing with a FleetPlow. For best information, customize the results by using data from your own operation. Or, if you prefer, use the example data included for truck and bus scenarios.

Are you ready? Hurricanes can destroy your business if you are not prepared. Our 5 step list can help you to prepare yourself for hurricane season.

Upgrade your loading dock safety equipment with new technology to help improve communications, prevent accidents, mitigate operator error, and take back control of your warehouse loading docks.

Clearing snow from your fleet is essential after a winter snowstorm. So is protecting your employees and your bottom line. Every minute your team spends using a laborious hand tool like a bus or tractor trailer snow brush or rake puts your team and your company at risk for unwanted injuries and extra costs.

We’re discovering more intelligent and safer ways to operate with new hardware, software and tools at the loading dock and in the warehouse. Here's 5 New Ways to Increase Productivity at the Loading Dock.

On April 22, 1980, the vehicle restraint industry as we know it was born when Rite-Hite introduced the original Dok-Lok. The product of several years of research and development, the Dok-Lok has paved the way for Rite-Hite to become the industry leader across many product categories. But, do you know how the vehicle restraint industry has evolved over the past 40 years?

Maintenance experts can tell if your equipment needs to be repaired, replaced, or upgraded and, better yet, help predict and prevent breakdowns at the loading dock and inside your warehouse.

Finding the right parts for your loading dock, vehicle restraint, or door repair is crucial to your warehouse running safely, efficiently, and with as little downtime as possible. Is there a difference between Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) or Aftermarket parts? Branded or knock off replacement parts?  

Businesses that create a comprehensive, capital expenditure budget, set themselves up for success. Learn how to create a more efficient loading dock.

Vehicle restraints, or trailer restraints, are devices that latch onto trailers to keep them from separating from the dock during loading/unloading. They were first introduced by Rite-Hite in 1980 as a better solution than wheel chocks, which were known to be ineffective. Restraints have been recognized by OSHA since 1981 as an acceptable alternative to wheel chocks.

The winter can wreak havoc in loading dock areas. Let’s look at some of the biggest culprits of energy loss and safety risks associated with winter weather at the loading dock.

HVLS fans help with destratification to push warm air downward in the winter, creating an even temperature from floor to ceiling. Destratification helps reduce heating and energy costs.

When it comes to Rite-Hite high volume, low speed (HVLS) fans, we can almost guarantee that the associated cost savings and ROI will ultimately result in the fan paying for itself.

Site surveys can be compared to first-time home inspections. A preliminary site survey can help facilities take stock of any equipment that needs to be repaired, replaced, or upgraded. At the loading dock, this will include a thorough inspection of loading dock levelers, vehicle restraints, dock controls, loading dock seals and shelter, and industrial doors.

When the time comes to build new, update or add-on to an industrial building, warehouse or distribution center, it’s common to shop different vendors for loading dock and in-plant equipment needs. Finding a single source provider can seem impossible, but can be a critical choice to help appropriately address the challenges at all ends of your facility.

Food processing and warehousing operations often have specific temperature control requirements, and here we detail how insulated curtain walls, blast freezer curtain walls and insulated door blankets and pallet covers address those needs.

As it becomes more common for cold storage warehouses to build its facilities upward, rather than outward, it’s imperative to make fall protection and other safety initiatives a priority.

Regulations in the Food and Beverage Industry are constantly changing and evolving, and keeping up with regulatory compliance can be a challenge unless you have a strict plan in place.

Why do loading docks need vehicle restraint systems? Read more and see how loading dock safety has changed through the years.

While Wheel Chocks have been used to try to prevent accidental vehicle movement for decades. Dock Locks are the ideal solution for safe loading operations. Find out why!

Maintaining loading dock levelers can reduce the likelihood of breakdowns while ensuring safety on the dock, front and center. So…how do you know when a dock leveler needs to be serviced or repaired?

Every industry has its own set of organizations that oversee regulations and codes to ensure safety. The rules generally encapsulate safety for the employees working in the industry; the consumers of the products developed, processed or stored in these facilities, and; the transporters that comprise its supply chain. Here is a list of key regulatory bodies you should follow to help keep you up to date on new or changing regulations.

Perhaps more than ever, product integrity and contamination control are ever-present concerns in any industry. Long before our recent pandemic, cleanrooms and wash-down protocols can play a key role in ensuring both. Removing contaminants from production processes is imperative to meet standards and provide the highest quality products.

Robotic process automation in the manufacturing industry has really taken off, so robots and fully automated systems can be found in new applications and in almost every industry. Every day, robotic integrators are building machines that improve productivity, output and quality controls - is machine safety keeping up, too?

Complete cleanliness of laboratory facilities and pharmaceutical plants is vital. There is the immediate safety of workers to remain safe from chemical hazards at all times, as well as the health and well-being of millions of consumers/patients in the long-term. CFR and ISO have developed a variety of regulations to help with these safety concerns.

Dock Management Software is a paperless system for the management of logistics operations. By replacing spreadsheets, clipboard checks and two-way radios customers like Arctic Cold Storage are connecting with their materials handlers, yard personnel and carriers in real-time

Despite the regular discussion of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), it’s important to remember the wide array of other food safety regulations and initiatives that must be enforced throughout facilities across the country. Here are 7 examples of regulations every food and beverage processor should be aware.

As the name implies, cleanrooms must be clean. In certain industries, it’s imperative that cleanrooms are up to code to not only avoid fines, but to keep consumers safe. Fortunately, there are many tools and equipment options to remain in compliance, ensure product integrity, and improve bottom lines.

Some cleanrooms are designed to keep contaminants within the room to avoid cross contamination with other rooms. Some cleanrooms are designed to keep particles and other contaminants out of room.

Dock Management and Communication Software makes centralized dock management intuitive. It’s a tool to make facility managers, logistics and material handlers, and yard management teams more efficient.

Facilities operating cleanrooms face a host of challenges. In these critical environments, the risks are amplified if left uncontrolled. That’s why it’s essential for facility managers to understand current regulations, be aware of contamination risks, and balance costs.

Improving safety at high-traffic intersections and congested work areas is a main focus for many industrial facility managers. Today, facility managers are increasingly seeing value in looking more closely at all accidents, regardless of scale, and even “near misses,” to proactively identify and help eliminate potential dangers.

While warehouses seem like an afterthought when it comes to company efficiency, they represent the biggest opportunity for increased revenue by implementing the latest energy saving techniques.

Your warehouse and loading dock are at the core of your facility operations, but those areas are also susceptible for safety hazards. Addressing loading dock and warehouse safety with light communication systems can help prevent these loading dock and warehouse safety hazards.

Loading dock bumpers can prevent the costly damage associated with trailers hitting the dock - protecting both your loading dock and your warehouse operation.

Although June is the official National Safety Month in the USA, safety is a year-round concern for today's facility managers everywhere in the world. It's always a good idea to review some of OSHA's key plant/warehouse safety initiatives. Here are five standards that everyone should be familiar with.

While serving a similar goal, dock plates and dock levelers are different pieces of loading dock equipment that serve distinct applications. Understanding the difference will save your loading dock operation time and money.

When the trailer bed is lower than your loading dock, there is a need for below dock loading. This can cause issues in safety and cargo security, but by implementing the right dock leveler, you can avoid those pitfalls.

Utilization of machinery and robotics in your facility allows for scalable efficiency that manual labor simply can't replicate. However, the process can create hazards in addition to when maintenance is performed by operators. In this post, we will walk through common warehouse hazards and how implementation of machine guarding systems can greatly reduce these risks.

Loading dock security threats can be obvious. Yet, there are overlooked threats affecting your supply chain security and, in turn, your bottom line. Click to learn more.

Loading Dock Levelers and Edge of Dock Levelers have the same purpose, but their differences need to be understood before deciding which is the better investment for your facility needs.

Voting has begun for the MHPN 2018 Product of the Year competition. Cast your vote today for Rite-Hite's TS-5000 Trailer Stabilizer in the Dock Equipment Category. Voting closes November 26th. 

Don't let poor dock leveler maintenance slow your facility down. Read this blog to learn how poor dock leveler maintenance can lead to your workers getting injured. 

Change is constant in warehouse environments – changing products, changing demands, changing tenants and layouts. With these changes often comes the need to divide the warehouse space. That is why many warehouse managers choose to use industrial curtain walls to partition their spaces.

Move warm air trapped at the ceiling down to the floor where it’s needed! HVLS Fans mix things up and help lower your winter energy costs.

Rite-Hite can help your facility run at peak energy efficiency, especially during the cold winter months. We have products and services that can help save you thousands of dollars every year. 

Safety isn’t the only concern at the loading dock as security has become an increasingly important aspect of loading dock management.

Efficient loading docks help to eliminate unnecessary delays, keeping customers satisfied, while helping to improve safety and productivity.

The summer months can be brutally hot at times, especially for warehouse and industrial facility workers. Air-conditioning certainly helps, but can be expensive. What are your other options?

When deciding on which type of machine guarding method is best for your specific needs, the choices typically fall into two categories: physical machine guards and light curtains. Find out the benefits of each inside!

Check out the results of this Rite-Hite survey and see how you compare to your industry peers. 

Keeping your facility safe from potentially catastrophic incidents can be a daunting task. And though there are hundreds of different types of facilities that need to be protected, there are certain procedures and best practices common to all of them that should be followed to keep everyone inside safe. 

See how one company dealt with fire lane restrictions with their outdoor application.

Contamination control is critical in a wide spectrum of industries, none more so than food manufacturing and processing. Several methods can be used to keep particulate in one space from contaminating another, including...

In this blog post we will look at two heat containment applications and how curtain walls worked as an effective solution.

Common machine guarding mistakes include improper maintenance, the intentional removal of the safeguarding devices to increase production and the lack of a formal risk assessment.

When researching HVLS fans, there are four key areas for consideration: 1. Blade Design 2. Hub and Mounting System 3. Safety 4. On-site Consultation

Reducing heat transfer between rooms with freezer and cold storage doors is a key component for improving cold storage operations and keeping the storage space as dry as possible.

See what is to come for the curtain wall industry...

Rite-Hite fans will keep the players cool as the Pawtucket Red Sox take on the Reno Aces in the Gildan Triple A National Championship.

Have a need to control, create, define or reclaim space within your facility, but looking to maximize your purchasing dollars? Consider using industrial curtains. Here are four reasons fabric curtain walls are an affordable solution:

There are 3 certainties in life: Death, Taxes, and Change! For businesses, change can come in many forms. Perhaps the sales force has had a banner year and your company is taking on new accounts; or maybe some other division…

Read how one customer dealt with a leased building using industrial curtain walls.

Learn how curtain walls can help you save money and energy on fume exhaust costs.

Installation is quick and easy.  Read how to get your business up and running with your new industrial curtain walls. 

Keep your employees in mind.  See how curtain walls can optimize your current A/C system.

Curtain walls are designed to be easy to install and maintain, but keep reading to see how to keep them working well for years to come. 

See how one company used insulated curtain walls to reduce noise levels by 20%.

Don't get locked in to one facility layout.  See how curtain walls allow you to be flexible and innovative in your business.

Whether you're looking for a high or low humidity solution, curtain walls can be your answer.

Read why you'll never consider clunky metal panel walls again.

Read a detailed take on what happens throughout the installation process.

Learn a few ways to show the benefits of industrial curtain walls.

Do you have a problem at your facility you just can't seem to solve?  So did these managers.  Read how curtain walls might just be your solution.