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Forklift and Materials Handling
‘Fork lift trucks cause more serious injuries in the workplace than any other kind of transport, and last year alone, ten workers in the UK were killed by fork lift trucks.’
Fork lift trucks are powerful industrial machines used to lift and transport materials. A wide range of fork lifts are employed, depending on the material being handled, the weight being transported and whether the vehicle is warehouse based or used outdoors. What they do all have in common is their limited visibility when carrying tall loads and ability to cause harm when in a collision with an object or pedestrian.
Incidents in the industry include;
- Forward collisions due to limited visibility when carrying tall loads
- Collisions due to quiet electric forklift not being heard on approach
- Collision due to workers becoming desensitised to tonal reversing alarms
- Reversing accidents due to limited visibility
- Collisions due to pedestrians not being aware of moving forklift
- Forklifts overturning due to uneven surface
- Forklift collisions due to stock piles
- Forklift collisions with larger or smaller vehicles
- Falling pallets due to lack of vision at higher racking level
Brigade is here to help
By working in partnership to understand your safety concerns, Brigade’s team of engineers strive to bring innovative answers to the market place. By making a small investment in Brigade’s safety solutions you can achieve clearly defined and measurable benefits as shown below – but most notably improved safety for workers and the public and significant cost savings too.
- All round visibility
- Reduced accidents, fatalities, injury and sickness time
- Increased productivity
- Reduced stock damage
- Reduced insurance premiums
- Reduced vehicle downtime
- Meets health and safety requirements
- Peace of mind for management and workers
- Strengthen companies reputation in the community
