GateKeeper® Mezzanine Safety Gate

Need to meet fall-protection standards without blocking pallet-drop areas?

Mezzanines and raised platforms improve warehouse space efficiency, especially in the age of automation — they also increase safety hazards. Improving upon traditional mezzanine swing gates, the GateKeeper helps prevent falls by ensuring an elevated access point is always guarded by one gate.

• Accessibility: Dual reciprocating barrier to create a controlled access area where inner and outer gates cannot be opened at the same time.
• Full-Time Protection: Inner and outer gates work in unison to ensure drop-off edge is always protected.
• Compliance: Fits where sliding or swinging gates that don't meet standards cannot be used. 

Is your mezzanine safety solution practical — and compliant?

The freestanding GateKeeper Mezzanine Safety Gate ensures full-time safety at the edge of a mezzanine platform when loading and unloading materials from a platform. GateKeeper addresses fall-protection standards for elevated work areas.

• OSHA compliance. Meets OSHA standard 1910.28(b)(1) requiring employers to provide fall protection for personnel on walking-working surfaces 4'0" (1200 mm) or more above the lower level. Also covers OSHA standard 1910.29(k)(1) requiring employers to ensure toeboards are used on overhead walking-working surface to prevent objects from falling and injuring employees below.
• ANSI compliance. Complies with ANSI 2009 standard section 6.4.3 published by the Storage Equipment Manufacturers Associations, which requires elevated surfaces to always be protected by guards. “Gates that swing open, slide open or lift out leaving an unprotected opening in the guarding are not acceptable."
• IBC compliance. Meets requirements for IBC 1015.2, which states, “Guards shall be located along open-sided walking surfaces, including mezzanines, equipment platforms, aisles, stairs, ramps and landings that are located more than 30 inches (762 mm) measured vertically to the floor or grade below at any point within 36 inches (914 mm) horizontally to the edge of the open side.”
  
  

Additional Rite-Hite® Barrier Solutions

For light-duty protection: 

• Dok-Guardian LD Barrier

Fixed barrier for heavy-duty applications:

• GuardRite® HDXL and HDXL Plus Polymer Barriers 

For light-duty applications and vertical lift accessibility: 

• Safe-T-Gate™ Vertical

For an ergonomic, powered loading dock safety gate:

• GuardRite Dok-Gate

For a multi-level rack safety gate:

• RacKeeper™ Safety Gate

Does your facility sacrifice efficiency in the name of safety?

Operational efficiency is critical — but safety cannot be compromised. Rite-Hite engineered GateKeeper so facilities get both benefits in equal measure. It creates a controlled access area that allows pallets to enter or exit through one open gate while another remains closed to keep personnel out.

• Exclusive Saf-T-Latch prevents workers inside work zone from raising gate, helping mitigate risk of employees falling from mezzanine while handling load.
• Unique link bar design ensures both gates work in unison — when outer gate opens to allow pallets in or out, inner gate automatically closes to prevent worker access to exposed edge.
• Toeboard mitigates risk of material accidentally being pushed from an elevated space to a lower level, potentially injuring anyone passing below.
• Steel side frames provide built-in track protection.
• Mezzanine gate available in manual and powered (120V / 1 phase) designs.
• 3" (75 mm) track and nylon rollers for smooth operation.
• 10-gauge powder coat yellow steel frame
• 4" (100 mm) integral toeboards.
• Front rail heights of 21" (535 mm) and 42" (1065 mm)
• Available in single- or double-pallet width and depth.

Looking for a safety solution that helps protect against falls from heights?

This mezzanine pallet safety gate does the job for:

• Most elevated work areas with exposed edges that require fall protection.
• Pallet-drop or material-transfer areas.

Any industry or type of facility will benefit from this solution including: 

• Warehouses and Distribution centers
• Manufacturing and production facilities
• Cold storage facilities
• Automotive facilities 
• Food & Beverage facilities
• Pulp, Paper and Packaging facilities
  
  

Find out if the GateKeeper is right for you. Contact a Rite-Hite representative today.