Pallet Racking Inspection Heathrow
The Heathrow logistics cluster handles global air freight cold storage and high-value cargo requiring SEMA safety sign-offs. Our SARI accredited inspectors visit sites in Heathrow for annual expert inspections, giving you a dated, signed record of the condition of your racking.
Industrial Areas and Transport Links in Heathrow
The main estates and parks we visit in Heathrow are Poyle Industrial Estate, Colnbrook Cargo Centre and Heathrow International Trading Estate, along with standalone warehouses and units nearby. After the Heathrow visit you receive a written report listing each defect by location, with a photograph, its measured damage and a red, amber or green classification.
Inspection Priorities for Heathrow Sites
What this means on the warehouse floor in Heathrow:
- Where racking runs at low temperature, we look hard at rust, condensation staining and frost-affected fixings, which are easy to miss on a weekly walk-round.
- Busy pick faces and fast pallet turnover put the front uprights of every run at risk from truck strikes; we measure each dent and bow against the tolerance rather than estimating it.
- Frames are checked for out-of-plumb against the BS EN 15635 limit, measured rather than judged by eye.
Your Legal Duty in Heathrow
An annual expert inspection is how Heathrow sites show they are meeting PUWER 1998 and HSE guidance HSG76. We measure damage against the BS EN 15635 tolerances and classify each finding green, amber or red in line with the SEMA Code of Practice. Any red-risk findings at a Heathrow site are flagged before we leave, so the affected bays can be offloaded straight away.
See our SEMA racking inspection checklist for the measured tolerances, or read what the HSE expects.