I witnessed a serious Incident on BBC yesterday, please see my email.
Firstly I was very excited to have watched the Indian Grand Prix coverage on BBC sport, however I was very disappointed to have witnessed at the end of the GP an interview with Jake Humphrey, David Coultard and Sebastian Vettel which appeared to take part in the garage, behind vettel was a forklift truck driver sitting on a counter balance truck forward facing without a seat belt, he also leaned over out of the truck trying to listen to his colleague who was standing on the forks of the machine, whilst the operator proceeded to lift him at least to my estimate 3 meters in the air which is totally illegal not driving a forklift in accordance with his licence "if he has one " (RTITB) OR (ITSSAR) then while all this was taking place a photographer was under the forks taking photographs. I could not belive what I was witnessing and then Jake Humphrey remarked that vettel was not the only talented driver at redbull and suggested that the forklift drivers were rather talented, these comments and actions are nothing short of a disgrace.
With all the safety and money that goes into F1, I would never in a million years expected to be viewing something that is viewed by everyone to see all around the world.
In my 36 years in this industry of forklift trucks, I have witnessed many unfortunate accidents, and any individual in any industry would be in deep trouble with HSE. We strive to make driving a forklift safe in this industry, the incidents and the comments on TV would not be received very well by anyone in the materials handling profession.
This stupidity may have taken place in India but the operator I would think would have been suitably trained in Milton Keynes.
A fantastic race in India for me was spoiled by these incidents.
I look forward to your satisfactory responses concerning these issues.
I have contacted ofcom, F1, Redbull.
This is the link see how many items of poor H&S you can find http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/20116840
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