BS 826:1978

Foreword
Cooperating organizations
Specification
1. Scope
2. References
3. Definitions
4. Dimensions of assemblies
5. Components
6. Materials and finish
7. Construction
8. Loading of shelves
Appendices
A. Erection of shelving and loading of bays
B. Tests for quality control of material
C. Site requirements to be met and information to
     be supplied by the purchaser with the enquiry
     or order
D. Angle upright compression tests for members made
     from stronger material
Tables
1. Arrangement of cross bracing
2. Maximum safe distributed loads for shelves
     (minimum factor of safety, 1.8)
3. Maximum safe load of bays (minimum factor of
     safety, 2.7)
Figures
1. Typical arrangement of a single sided two bay run,
     open type
2. Typical arrangement of a single sided two bay run,
     closed type
3. Typical arrangement of a single sided two bay run,
     closed type, with dividers, bin fronts and card
     holders
4. Typical arrangements of ledge construction
5. Dimensions of angle uprights
6. Dimensions of sheves
7. Dimensions of cross braces
8. Dimensions of shelf reinforcers and side supports
9. Dimensions of side sheets
10. Dimensions of back sheets
11. Dimensions of card holders
12. Dimensions of dividers
13. Dimensions of bin fronts
14. Dimensions of base plinths
15. Dimensions of shelf drawers
16. Dimensions of doors
17. Construction of open type bays and runs
18. Construction of closed type bays and runs
19. Positions of bracings
20. Details of specimen mounting plate
21. Strut test rig assembly

Materials, finish, method of construction (including notes on erecting techniques) for single tier bolted shelving not more than 3075 mm high prepared as open type or closed type and installed in the form of bays or runs.