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Safety or Compliance: If You Have To Choose…
Rob Vetter
3 minute read
Safety or Compliance: If You Have To Choose…
Safety First - 16 Aug 2007 (#323) Regardless of what the 'regs' say or do not say, whatever it is you are doing, you must do it as safely as possible.
Highlights of Safety Conference
1 minute read
Highlights of Safety Conference
Fork Talk - 16 Aug 2007 (#323) The Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) says participants in its one-day safety conference on September 27 can expect to receive "high-quality guidance and practical solutions".
Uniform National Standards?
Todd Brennan
2 minute read
Uniform National Standards?
Safety First - 9 Aug 2007 (#322) From a young age, we are told that being unique is good. That makes it tough to get state governments to agree on adopting uniform national standards.
AEM gives forklift companies awards
1 minute read
AEM gives forklift companies awards
Fork Talk - 2 Aug 2007 (#321) Eight forklift manufacturers are among the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)'s 39 recipients of its annual "statistics outstanding merit award".
Rich Dal Bello
3 minute read
Due diligence required
Safety First - 2 Aug 2007 (#321) In recent weeks, there's been heated debate over who is responsible for workplace incidents. This week, a new Safety First contributor, Canadian Rich Dal Bello, looks at the concept of "due diligence".
BITA supports children’s charity
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BITA supports children’s charity
Fork Talk - 19 Jul 2007 (#319) British Industrial Truck Association members have supported The Sick Children's Trust for the second consecutive year with funds raised from a charity raffle at BITA's summer ball in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Let’s clear the air!
Todd Brennan
4 minute read
Let’s clear the air!
Safety First - 22 Jun 2007 (#315) It's a busy but average Friday afternoon. Quite a large shipment has just been received and it all has to be put away before anyone goes home. It is a small and somewhat overgrown warehouse. The six forklifts are not the latest internal combustion engine models but they do the job, run well and don't appear to have excessive emissions...
It’s all good
Rob Vetter
2 minute read
It’s all good
Safety First - 10 May 2007 (#309) If you have trained a forklift operator or two in your time you can probably relate to the experience of seeing the emotional state of some trainees when they show up for training sessions. Often displaying signs ranging from utter apathy to immobilising fear, their state is usually due to the fact that they have been sent, usually against their will ...
The role of independent forklift distributors
Bill Pfleger
3 minute read
The role of independent forklift distributors
Your Focus - 10 May 2007 (#309) As the need to keep downtime to a minimum has emerged as a key driver in the forklift fleet selection process, Europe's leading forklift manufacturers have sought to differentiate their product offering by the quality of the after-sales care they provide. ByBill Pfleger.
Time for change?
Todd Brennan
3 minute read
Time for change?
Safety First - 26 Apr 2007 (#307) I rack my brain as to why these two scenarios continue to pop up. Surely by now all users are aware of the importance of wearing seat belts and pedestrian separation - or are they? Is it operators or management? Is it forklift design or workplace design? Is it the number of forklifts in use or the number of workers? Is it behavioural or procedural? Obviously there is no simple answer or surely it would have been treated by now.
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