Safety Products

Dock Bumpers are your first line of defense from heavy trucks that cause serious damage to your expensive dock levelers, building walls, dock seals and dock shelters. Loading dock bumpers come in a variety of types, from laminated for light use to molded and steel-faced for heavier use.

Also known as Track Guards or Z-guards, dock door protectors are built to do what they say:  Protect the door track and doors in you loading dock operation. Their goal is to minimize the need for repair and more importantly to avoid a security issue with a broken door.

Guardrail is your high visibility and structurally sound solution for providing protection to both people and equipment throughout your materials handling facility. Quick installation of steel guardrail systems, also known as Sentry Rail, provides you with an OSHA compliant working environment almost overnight. Safety guard rail is designed to handle impact from heavy loads in motion such as on a forklift.

Loading Dock Communication Lighting, also known as red-green lights, helps reduce the incidence of major accidents due to trucks pulling away from a dock before loading and unloading is complete. The communication lighting, also known as red green loading dock lights, is designed to communicate with both the truck driver and forklift drivers.

Column Protectors are designed to protect building columns, mezzanine columns, rack posts, drain pipes and other loading dock, warehouse and facility equipment from moving vehicles such as forklifts, lift trucks and other more. Built with safety in mind, column protectors come in safety yellow to increase visibility and reduce potential accidents.

Pipe Bollards are the barrier solution to avoiding equipment, wall and facility damage. Bollards offer solid protection from moving vehicle collisions and reduce the incidence of repair for door tracks, doors, loading docks, racking and other in-plant areas. They are finished in safety yellow to increase visibility and can be installed virtually anywhere they are needed, including in your parking lots.

Bollard covers are the simplest way to immediately improve the look and safety of your loading dock, warehouse and parking environments. These bollard sleeves fit securely over existing bollard posts and are built with thick polyethylene for durability and extended color life.

Reducing the occurrence of loading dock accidents is the chief goal for those installing a Dock Impact Barrier. It is a proven safety product that reduces falls off the edge of a loading dock when the overhead door is open. It is capable of stopping a 10,000 lb load moving at 4 mph and requires minimal manual effort to open and close.

Loading Dock Guide Lights are the best way to prevent a backing truck from overrunning the dock. The dock guide lights generate a focused and bright light pattern to light up the dock surface and assist the truck driver with alignment. Reflective Dock Guide Stripes are a quick and economical way to improve dock safety by helping to align and guide backing trucks. They require no electrical hook-ups, no bulbs and are easy to install.

Improving Warehouse Lighting can dramatically improve your safety record. Today’s modern warehouse lights are also more efficient while being brighter than most fluorescent and incandescent industrial lighting. Even better, they have a lower total cost of ownership when you factor in estimated bulb life and wattage requirements.

Wire Partitions are the answer when it comes to safety, security and compliance. A woven wire partition offers modular flexibility and accessibility when your need is an equipment enclosure, barrier, tool crib or more. McKinley Equipment’s experts will guide you in your wire partition choice depending on your exact need.