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Awards night honours industry’s best

Fork Talk - 1 Mar 2007 (#299) An operator sensing system that acts on a forklift's transmission has won a safety award for Doosan Infracore in the UK Fork Lift Truck Association's (FLTA) annual awards.

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Todd Brennan

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My first column

Safety First - 1 Mar 2007 (#299) Welcome to the first column I will present for Forkliftaction.com News. Every six weeks or so I will comment on forklift safety issues that affect the Australian market

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Two seminars planned for “Music City, USA”

Fork Talk - 22 Feb 2007 (#298) The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) will hold product liability and safety seminars at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel, in Nashville, Tennessee, in April.

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Thousands download new forklift safety standards

Fork Talk - 15 Feb 2007 (#297) The Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation (ITSDF) says more than 10,000 copies of its B56 series of standards dealing with forklift safety have been downloaded from its website.

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ITA president to speak at China ITA meeting

Fork Talk - 8 Feb 2007 (#296) For the first time, an Industrial Truck Association president will address a sister association's annual meeting. ITA president Jim Malvaso, who is Raymond's president and CEO, said he had accepted an invitation from China Industrial Truck Association (CITA) managing director Su Enyi to be a keynote speaker at CITA's annual meeting in Shanghai on May 21-22.

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Organisations promote miner safety

Fork Talk - 1 Feb 2007 (#295) The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) have teamed up to improve miner health and safety.

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Safety campaign “not rocket science”

Fork Talk - 25 Jan 2007 (#294) The Fork Lift Truck Association's (FLTA) CEO says FLTA's latest safety campaign is "not rocket science" but simple reminders that can save lives. David Ellison was referring to the Safety 4MOST campaign that FLTA will launch at IMHX 2007, in Birmingham on March 13-16.

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Computer-based Training; a Contradiction in Terms

Rob Vetter

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Computer-based Training; a Contradiction in Terms

Safety First - 18 Jan 2007 (#293) Computer based training (CBT) programs, in spite of their often flashy graphics and cool soundtracks, cannot even begin to determine operational competence and I think everyone knows that including the producers of such programs.

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Cargo Chat #9

Cargo Chat - 18 Jan 2007 (#293) While it has long been accepted that cars on public roads should be fitted with seat belts and that drivers and passengers benefit from wearing them when travelling, the same cannot be said for terminal equipment. Speeds are very different. However, any mobile equipment can lose stability and, when that happens with terminal equipment, the driver tends to jump or be thrown out the side as the equipment overturns, meaning the machine falls on him or her.

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MHIA: 2007 favourable for materials handling

Fork Talk - 21 Dec 2006 (#291) The Material Handling Industry of America's (MHIA) latest quarterly materials handling equipment manufacturing (MHEM) forecast shows the sector will continue to be favourable in 2007.

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