Safely charging electric pallet jacks
In warehouses, the use of electric pallet trucks, pump trucks, and order pickers with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries is becoming increasingly common. But did you know that having so many batteries on charge in your warehouse poses a significant risk of a battery fire or even an explosion on your premises?
Online department store Wehkamp recently invested in a Batteryguard battery safe for this reason, allowing them to better protect their staff and inventory against growing safety risks.
Are you a business owner in the logistics industry looking for a solution to safely charge the batteries of your electric vehicles?
Risks of electric pallet jacks: fire and explosion hazards
In a warehouse, you often work with varying staff, so you don’t know exactly how they handle the vehicles. If an order picker bumps his cart or pallet jack against something, or drops the battery, the battery can get damaged inside.
Then, if you charge the battery, there’s a risk it becomes extremely hot, catches fire, and in the worst case, explodes. Such a battery fire develops very quickly and is almost unstoppable. It also releases flammable and toxic gases that can lead to an explosion!
Insights from insurers: safely charge batteries in a special charging cabinet
The problem is that you often can’t see from the outside if the battery is damaged inside. Therefore, insurers have long been urging the storage of lithium-ion batteries in a special fireproof battery cabinet.
They have even included guidelines for this in their policy conditions. In a short video, risk expert Bart van de Broek from Nationale-Nederlanden explains the dangers of a battery fire and how you can solve this.
The solution: Batteryguard XL battery cabinet for electric pallet jacks
Therefore, charge your batteries in a lithium-ion battery cabinet that can contain a fire and explosion within the cabinet. Batteryguard XL is such a fire- and explosion-proof battery cabinet. Here, you can safely charge the batteries of all your pallet jacks, pump trucks, and order picking carts at a central location at the same time.
Flexible layout battery cabinet for all types of batteries
The Batteryguard safe allows for centralized storage of all your electric vehicle batteries.
The layout of the safe is flexible so you can fit different types and sizes of batteries in the safe at the same time. For example, we install special wall holders in the safe where the battery only needs to be clicked in.
And there are extra options, such as the extra automatic extinguishing system with cooling foam or lockable locker compartments in the battery cabinet.
How the Batteryguard battery cabinet for electric pallet jacks works
The Batteryguard battery cabinet is the central place where you charge the batteries of the electric pallet jacks and order picking carts.
After a shift, your employee places the battery in the safe on the charger and and picks up a fully charged battery the next day.
Keep the cabinet doors closed!
Suppose one of the batteries becomes extremely hot during charging and catches fire, you don’t want the fire to spread to your warehouse.
Batteryguard keeps such a battery fire inside the safe, but only if you always close the cabinet doors. If someone leaves the doors open, you’ll hear a loud alarm that only stops when you close the doors.
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