How high is too high when you're stacking boxes by hand?

[Lamar Mercer]

We keep pushing stock higher to free up floor space and I’m starting to get uneasy about how tall some of our stacks are getting. Nothing has fallen over yet but a couple of the piles in the corner make me nervous every time I walk past them, especially the lighter boxes on top. I’ve been reading about vertical stacking in UAE warehouses and it’s made me realise we’ve been stacking based on whatever fits rather than any kind of rule about weight distribution or height limits. The tricky part is our ceiling height is generous so there’s a lot of temptation to just keep going up. How do you lot work out a safe height, is it based on the box strength, the floor, or just common sense? And does anyone bother with anything to stabilise stacks or is that just something you see in films?

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