productSamuel Grant Packaging has been awarded accreditation from Alcumus SafeContractor for achieving excellence in health and safety in the workplace. The accreditation demonstrates that Samuel Grant Packaging’s engineers work to exceptionally high safety standards when working at customers’ sites.
productAccording to HSE, there are approximately 622,000 cases of reportable work-related accidents occur in the UK each year. Such accidents often involve ladders.
productSEMA, the Storage Equipment Manufacturers’ Association’s first full day technical seminar on Tuesday June 6 proved to be a major success, says Jaap Vos, SEMA President.
productNew laminated leaflets from Consolidated Fork Truck Services (CFTS) explain why – particularly in agriculture and construction – where accident rates continue to be high – Through Examination is as essential for rough terrain trucks and telehandlers as it is for fork lift trucks.
productFrom the 1st September, anyone training as a fork lift truck operator will find the test considerably tougher than ever before.
productA North West manufacturing company has been fined after an employee was struck by a fork lift truck.
productNew laminated leaflets from Consolidated Fork Truck Services (CFTS) explain why Thorough Examination is as essential for rough terrain trucks and telehandlers as it is for fork lift trucks.
newsThis year’s Health & Safety North conference and exhibition will take place in Manchester for the first time to accommodate growing attendance numbers over the past decade. The 2017 edition has moved from Bolton to the larger EventCity venue in Manchester, where it is expected to attract 2,000 visitors and 200 exhibitors.
articleThere is a misconception with many employers that the role of a vehicle banksman is merely to ‘help a driver reverse’ therefore training is not required. RTITB says: unfortunately these thoughts could not be further from the truth.
productA food manufacturing company has been fined after a worker fell six metres from the back of a fork lift truck.
productIndustrial safety specialist will also display trapped key interlocking technology.
productCFTS has warned companies hiring trucks on a short-term basis that they should always insist that their fork lift documentation includes a Report of Thorough Examination.
productTo meet the requirements of the new EU standard for explosion protected lift truck design, Pyroban has invested in a 2-year EN1755:2015 change programme.
productThe global centre of innovation in transport and mobility, TRL, has developed a blind spot simulator rig which utilises virtual reality to help improve the design of truck cabs and road layouts, as well as aiding accident investigations.
productABB is embedding extended safety I/Os within its series of robot controllers to improve the flexibility, safety and reliability of collaboration between robots and people.
productI.D. Systems is not only a leading supplier of fleet management solutions, helping customers to operate their industrial trucks and MHE safer, it also take safety very seriously when it comes to its own workforce.
productCILT has unveiled a safety conference for November 8 entitled Delivering Safety First, this year’s Transport & Logistics Safety Forum Conference.
productAlthough the tougher new testing regime for fork lift operators has met with widespread approval, according to Dave Sparrow, Managing Director of accrediting body AITT, it’s just a first step in the journey to improving safety.
articlePeter Harvey, Chief Executive of the Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) reveals how any business – regardless of industry or size – can raise its safety game at little or no cost.
newsHSE has teamed up with the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) to sponsor an annual MSD ‘risk-reduction through design’ award.
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