Man hit by forklift because walkway was blocked
The Goods Out area of ECO Plastic’s warehouse had a designated pedestrian walkway but that was blocked due to building work and the company had not provided an alternative safe route for pedestrians.
The Goods Out area of ECO Plastic’s warehouse had a designated pedestrian walkway but that was blocked due to building work and the company had not provided an alternative safe route for pedestrians.
A leading logistics firm has been prosecuted after an agency worker fell from a loading ramp at their site on the Isle of Grain in Kent.
A vacant food distribution centre in Leicestershire has been undergoing a process of refurbishment and modernisation in order to bring it back up to an operational standard.
With seasonal goods already on the way to the UK and clothing retailers stocking shelves with winter woolies, have you thought about Christmas yet?
Excellent safety advice here, from logistics professionals themselves, through the Labyrinth Safety Circle.
Mark Moore, service manager at industrial and garage door manufacturer Hörmann, explains how preventative maintenance contracts are central to good health and safety planning.
The Association of Loading and Elevating Equipment Manufacturers manufacture and supply a wide range of products used for materials handling applications. Here, ALEM answers frequently asked questions from customers.
RDS Technology offers a range of on-board weighing systems for Forklift trucks – the Liftalert, Liftlog 100 and the Liftlog 100+. These systems offer load monitoring and weighing functions with an internal alarm to warn when load threshold is approached and at the overload point.
An interactive app designed to make bay management quicker, easier and more accessible has been launched by 3T Group.
Two companies have been fined after a lorry driver suffered multiple injuries while loading his lorry.
Risk assessment had failed to spot need to segregate pedestrians and forklifts in the Goods In and Out area.
Andrew Georgiou, general manager at Stertil Dock Products is worried by a trend towards the commoditisation of loading bay equipment.
A Hertfordshire-based company has been fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he was struck by a 3.2 tonne reel of paper at its premises in Essex.
Thorworld Industries is advocating a simple solution to warehouse operators who are struggling with downtime, poor performance or health & safety issues – to conduct an audit of their loading/unloading infrastructure to determine cost-effective fixes.
A Glamorgan stevedoring company has been fined for breaking safety legislation after an employee suffered severe leg injuries falling from a trailer.
Home shopping channel QVC approached Newland Conveyors to implement the automatic loading of cartons into its trailers.
There are a essential loading bay requirements that all companies require, whatever the configuration of their loading bay, says Thorworld.
A Tameside factory worker had to have part of his left leg amputated after he was struck by an 850kg metal frame being delivered to a plant in Glossop, a court has heard.
Parcel carrier takes on 17 Stertil doors in major refurbishment. Doors include insulated models and high speed versions.
A Sheffield steel company has been sentenced after a catalogue of safety failings led to a 42-year-old worker being killed when he was knocked off his lorry and then crushed by a three-tonnes load of steel tubes.