Scale New Heights with Custom or Pre-Fabricated Industrial Stairs and Work Platforms
Industrial Stairs and Work Platforms Maximize Warehouse Space
In industrial and warehouse settings, maximizing space while ensuring the safety of your workers is a number one priority. One of our favorite space-saving solutions is the use of commercial-grade industrial stairs and work platforms. These customizable structures provide access to otherwise hard-to-reach spaces and safely navigate conveyors and obstacles. Whether it’s alternating tread steps, prefabricated access steps, crossover stairs, or mezzanine and work platform systems, we’ve got a solution that offers a practical way to optimize usable square footage in any industrial environment.
Every Warehouse is Different – Explore Design Options
You’ve got a unique workflow, and we’ve got the options to suit it. Your design choice will be influenced by a few different factors, such as the height at which you need the stairs to span, whether they need to go over any equipment, and if they’ll be in an area where employees will regularly be carrying objects on them. Warehouse Optimizers, Inc. (WOI) has a wide variety of options and a large inventory of industrial stairs, no matter the application. We even offer a broad spectrum of installation services to get your operation running right… the first time.
Four Different Industrial Stair Design Options
Alternating Tread Steps
Alternating tread steps are an ideal choice for accessing narrow spaces like mezzanines, catwalks, and rooftops. These industrial stairs require less space and offer ergonomic design features that enhance stability and safety. By aligning the center of gravity over the person’s feet, alternating tread stairs provide improved stability, allowing personnel to carry items while maintaining three points of contact. Additionally, the design enables individuals to face the direction of travel, promoting awareness of potential risks.
Applications
- Use in spaces too narrow for standard stairs
- Access to catwalks, mezzanines, rooftops & more
- Conveyor crossover bridges
- Operator access for equipment and tanks
- Indoor or outdoor use
- Safe, OSHA-compliant egress
Prefabricated access stairs are another popular option for their simplicity and safety ratings. These bolt-together stairs offer a cost-effective and quick solution for both new construction and retrofit applications – making them an easy choice. With a wide range of standard heights, angles, railings, treads, and finishes to choose from, prefabricated stairs provide hassle-free customization. They are easy to assemble and can be shipped flat, saving transportation costs. These stairs comply with OSHA, IBC, and ADA standards, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance in industrial environments.
Design Specs:
- Bolt-together design
- Ships quickly, saves on cost
- Ships flat/Easy to assemble (pre-assembled avail)
- Customized to the exact height from 18” to 240”
- Standard and custom tread widths from 24” to 48”
- OSHA & IBC & ADA compliant
- Finish options – powder coat, galvanized
- Tread types – diamond plate, bar grate, concrete pan, grip tread
Prefabricated Access Stairs
Crossover stairs, also known as crossover bridges, are designed to facilitate navigation over obstacles such as ductwork, machinery, and pipes. They allow for access to otherwise unusable spaces, maximizing warehouse efficiency. Carbon steel with various powder coat finishes, diamond tread plates, and OSHA-compliant guardrail systems are standard options for crossover stairs. The choice between bolted access stairs or alternating tread stairs depends on height and space constraints, providing versatility in design.
Some of our options:
- Carbon steel with safety yellow, iron gray, or gray primer powder coat finish
- 36” wide treads with open risers
- 3/16 inch diamond tread plate platform
- 11-gauge diamond tread plate treads
- OSHA-compliant guardrail system constructed of 1½ inch round tubing
- 3” square tubes legs (when required)
- All assembly hardware
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, Its… Your Custom Solution!
Extend your operating capacity into the sky with industrial work platforms. Vertical space is often unused in warehouses, but it can give you much-needed square footage without a costly renovation. Optimize your vertical space with industrial work platforms from Storage Solutions Inc.
Industrial work platforms provide a stable surface for workers to perform tasks at elevated heights or access equipment and machinery. They are pre-engineered to integrate seamlessly with industrial stairs and can be customized to fit specific space and weight capacity requirements. We offer standard or custom configurations and a choice of platform decking materials on all of our work platforms.
There are two primary styles of work platforms:
 Formed Work Platform |
 Drop-In Work Platform |
Formed platforms are a versatile option that comes in various standard sizes and is compatible with both alternating stair treads and bolted access stairs. They provide flexibility in function and design and come in a variety of sizes to suit your business needs. When paired with alternating stair treads, formed platforms seamlessly integrate into confined spaces – maximizing accessibility while ensuring safety.
Alternatively, when used with bolted access stairs, formed platforms offer easy installation and a secure connection, providing stability and durability. This compatibility with different stair designs makes formed platforms a valuable component in creating customized and efficient industrial access solutions.
Drop-in platforms offer heightened versatility and adaptability, making them an ideal choice for complex design requirements and customized configurations. These platforms are specifically designed to accommodate unique industrial settings where standard platform options may not suffice.
By being “drop-in,” they can be seamlessly integrated into intricate layouts and challenging spaces, allowing businesses to maximize the use of available areas. The flexibility of drop-in platforms enables precise customization to meet specific operational needs, such as accommodating existing equipment or machinery. Whether it’s a non-standard shape, irregular dimensions, or a combination of platforms and stairs, the adaptability of drop-in platforms ensures they can be tailored to the precise requirements of any industrial environment.
Work platforms are an excellent choice for manufacturing facilities, warehouses, construction sites, and more. Providing your workers with elevated surfaces to perform tasks efficiently and safely can save your operation valuable time and money. We also offer a selection of OSHA-compliant non-slip surfaces, guardrails, and other safety features. Optimize your space and overall productivity by incorporating industrial work platforms into your operations.
Bring Your Operation to the Next Level with Industrial Stairs and Work Platforms
In industrial environments, maximizing space is essential, but it should never come at the cost of compromising safety. Industrial stairs and work platforms provide a practical and OSHA-compliant solution for accessing hard-to-reach areas and navigating obstacles. Whether alternating tread steps, prefabricated access stairs, crossover stairs, or industrial work platforms, these customizable structures are versatile and can be suited to every budget.
The WOI team brings over 180 years of combined material-handling experience to each project. We also have long-term industry relationships that guarantee reliable products at competitive pricing. Our goal is 100% Customer Satisfaction for every project.
We ask customers to evaluate how we did based on our Total Satisfaction Experience™ (TSE).
The Total Satisfaction Experience focuses on five essential customer experiences:
- We will listen to your needs
- Execute your project with particular attention to your unique application
- Stick to project timelines
- Ensure a safe environment
- Pay close attention to the detail of the finished product
If we’ve done our job, you’ll be 100% satisfied… and we always do our job!
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