Tim Waples

The Fork Lift Truck Association has announced October as this year's National Forklift Safety Month. The theme of the month will be: "Forklift Safety. It's no accident."

In the UK, there are more than 1,300 forklift-related accidents each year - five accidents every working day.

"The lift truck industry works hard to improve safety, but in order to make a real difference, we need to get everyone involved," says FLTA chief executive Tim Waples. "This is why we created Safety Month."

Since 2008, Safety Month has been the FLTA's annual campaign to help raise awareness of the key issues affecting forklift safety.

But Safety Month isn't just for forklift operators - it's for supervisors, managers and safety personnel as well as those on foot who work alongside trucks, according to FLTA.

Throughout Safety Month, a range of resources will be available on the FLTA website to help spread the campaign message. These include safety videos, downloadable posters, benchmarking tools and fact sheets, as well as materials to support inductions, training sessions and toolbox talks.