The person inspecting your rack is usually quoting on it.
That is structure, not dishonesty. A dealer’s inspector finds the problems a dealer can fix, and the fix is the dealer’s product. You end up with a report you cannot fully trust and a quote you cannot fully compare.
Ten things a racking review can answer.
Most engagements draw on two or three of these, not all ten. Scope gets set on the first call, and the fee is fixed before anything starts.
A structured walk of the installation: uprights, beams, bracing, anchors, baseplates, and load signage, documented location by location.
What has to come out of service now, what can be repaired, what can wait — and the specification a repair contractor can price against.
Where the installation sits against the Canadian user standard and RMI practice, in plain language, with the gaps ranked.
What your own people should be checking weekly, how to report an impact, and why the beam that looks fine often is not.
What the rack is actually rated for as built and loaded today, against what the operation is putting into it.
Aisle widths, travel, pick faces, and slotting checked against the equipment on the floor and the building it sits in.
Sequencing, salvage, what is worth moving, and what a reconfiguration changes about capacity and code exposure.
Completeness, capacity assumptions, code alignment, freight and duty exposure, and what has quietly been left out of the price.
Scoping the engineering, tendering it, and managing it through to permit — so it does not stall the project.
Pre-Start Health and Safety Reviews scoped, engaged with a licensed engineer, and tracked through to closed-out findings.
Certified racking inspector, twenty years in material handling, working knowledge of the Ontario building code, CSA, and ANSI standards.
Stamped drawings, Pre-Start Health and Safety Reviews, seismic and code review — scoped, tendered, and managed through a licensed Ontario professional engineer.
Sides & Benson issues no engineering stamp, and no report here substitutes for one where the law requires it. You are told which is which before the work starts.
No. Sides & Benson does not sell, distribute, or install racking, and takes no supplier commission. That is the point of the service.
No. I am a certified racking inspector with twenty years in material handling. Where a job needs a stamp — drawings, PSRs, seismic or code review — I scope it and coordinate a licensed Ontario professional engineer.
I coordinate it. A PSR must be signed by a licensed professional engineer. I scope the review, engage the engineer, manage the process, and make sure the findings get closed out.
For most Ontario warehouses, an annual inspection by a qualified person plus regular internal checks by trained staff. Higher traffic, older rack, or a history of impacts moves that up.
Yes, including overseas-manufactured systems. The review covers completeness, capacity assumptions, code alignment, freight and duty exposure, and what has been left out of the price.
Fixed fee, quoted after a short call once the scope is clear. You get the number before anything starts.
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A walk of the installation, a written report, and a clear line between what needs an engineer and what does not.
AI workflow consulting for material handling businesses — racking dealers, installers, and distributors across Ontario. Twenty years on the floor, applied to the paperwork.