{"id":3379,"date":"2025-09-12T04:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:23:24","slug":"the-571kg-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/the-571kg-reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog #5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 571kg Reality Check<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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On a counterbalance course, we trained a team dealing with tight racking installed close to perimeter walls \u2014 a setup that left no room for broadside Euro pallet placement without undercutting.<\/p>\n

To get the pallets safely into position, a 300mm undercut was needed. But here\u2019s the critical part:<\/p>\n

That shifted the load centre from 400mm to 700mm, reducing the truck\u2019s lifting capacity from 2,000kg to just 1,429kg. That\u2019s a 571kg drop \u2014 purely due to how the pallet sits on the forks.<\/p>\n

Undercutting isn\u2019t unsafe by default. What\u2019s unsafe is doing it without understanding when and how to apply it.<\/p>\n

Key takeaways:<\/p>\n

Undercut only during stacking or de-stacking \u2014 never in transit
Pallets must be fully supported while travelling
Forks must carry at least two-thirds of the pallet length<\/p>\n

At Axisafety Training Ltd, we don\u2019t just train for the test. We train operators to handle real-world site limitations safely. On this site, undercutting was a safe solution to prevent load and wall damage \u2014 but only after operators understood the risks and limits.<\/p>\n

Training matters. So does context. Let\u2019s make safety practical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A 571kg Reality Check On a counterbalance course, we trained a team dealing with tight racking installed close to perimeter walls \u2014 a setup that left no room for broadside Euro pallet placement without undercutting. To get the pallets safely into position, a 300mm undercut was needed. But here\u2019s the critical part: That shifted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axisafetyni.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}