I work in a warehouse where staff need to access the top of stacks of goods. Off and on, we do see them standing in bins and then forked up with a forklift to those heights. For years, even decades, we have been reprimanding them for doing so as it is deemed unsafe.

Then after much noise from the Union, we then build mobile safety platforms which allows staff to climb up to a fixed height and then access to the top, with a safety harness and belt attached to him. The belt is retractable and with one end attached to the platform. All these supposed to address the working at height issue.

Then while searching for something on the web, I came across this site with a fork-mounted attachment bin that allows a man to be lifted by a forklift! Almost identical to what our staff used to do!

So, if such attachments are sold commercially, are fork mounted bins considered safe after all???!