Practicality & operator well-being

A need for increased personnel safety in a hospital loading bay has led building and property maintenance contractor Booker & Best to implement an improved loading solution using a platform manufactured and supplied by Thorworld Industries.

East Sussex-based Booker & Best operates the rapid response contract for Conquest Hospital in Saint Leonards-on-sea, near Hastings. Having determined that the existing concrete platform in use at the hospital offered insufficient edge protection during loading and unloading, Booker & Best needed to source an improved solution that was capable of safely facilitating the unloading of copious consignments of general stores, provisions, and deliveries.

“We needed a tailor-made design with numerous elements that could be brought together to create a really effective and safe set of apparatus,” explains Andy Kershaw, Booker & Best’s Contract Supervisor.

“Thorworld’s design included the loading platform itself, combined with a dock plate, dock bumpers and alignment kerbs, all of which culminate to provide a loading bay system that delivers when it comes to efficiency, practicality, and operator well-being.”

The loading platform and its additional equipment is now fully-functioning, with reports from the hospital indicating good performance.