What price safety?
Curtis’ red Safety Zone lamp is already widely used in warehouses across the UK.
Curtis’ red Safety Zone lamp is already widely used in warehouses across the UK.
Each year, 1300 people suffer life-changing injuries as a result of lift truck accidents. To help us better understand the issues and challenges facing employers, Peter Harvey MBE, chief executive of the Fork Lift Truck Association, shares his thoughts.
For workplace safety innovators, A-Safe, protecting critical structures is an essential element in the full spectrum of their health and safety and operational efficiency solutions.
The SHE Awards are free to enter and celebrate achievements in the health, safety, security and fire sectors.
Greater awareness of condition monitoring of wire ropes using magnetic head technology is required to avoid the risk of catastrophic port crane failure, says LEEA.
This year’s SEMA storage safety conference took a broad, holistic look at warehouse safety covering a number of hot button topics.
The new safety campaign for 2018-19 from the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) reminds managers and operators conducting work at height using MEWPs to carry out proper risk assessments, choose the correct equipment for the job and conduct thorough site and machinery inspections.
Off-the-shelf manual handling training should become a thing of the past, according to advice released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The Safer Logistics Zone at The Health & Safety Event provides a fantastic opportunity to get practical advice that you can take back to your warehouse or logistics operation and put to good use.
There’s a time and a place for rulers and it’s nowhere near a fork lift truck.
During winter, ice slabs and lumps of snow falling from truck roofs are a potential hazard for traffic.
Black Friday is a great day for business but don’t let it come at the expense of your workers’ health, cautions Michael Paton, policy lead for musculoskeletal disorders at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Elokon has released the first smartphone based forklift fleet management system on the market.
HGV drivers can face sleep, fatigue, drug, and alcohol problems among a wide range of driver health issues. Safer Logistics will give managers the tools to develop a proactive approach to tackling these and other problems.
With changes at the top, Pyroban is placing renewed focus on the materials handling industry. HSS editor Simon Duddy interviews Pyroban Group CEO Brian Quarendon to hear more.
Inotec UK carried out the large warehouse finishing project for the leading chilled and ambient food manufacturer at its warehouse and distribution site in Leicester.
The best way to avoid incidents, disruption and make a saving is to set time aside for training when companies take on agency forklift drivers, says Stuart Taylor, MD, Mentor Training.
The Safety & Health Excellence Awards are completely FREE to enter and celebrate achievements in the health, safety, security and fire sectors.
Wherever tough or hazardous operating conditions place excessive demands on lifting operations, the Profi series air hoists from J D Neuhaus (JDN) rise to the challenge.
It’s the start of another New Year… a time to review our lifestyle choices and work out how to turn things around.