National Fork Lift Safety Week
Fork lift safety: did you meet the gold standard?
To mark National Safety Week, we challenged you to test your knowledge of basic lift truck safety principles.
Even after recent improvements in the safety record, workers in the UK are still seriously injured by fork lift trucks at a rate of at least one per day. Frequently, these accidents have life-changing or even fatal consequences… and the real tragedy is that most are entirely avoidable. The FLTA believes spreading basic safety knowledge – and acting upon it – could be enough to dramatically reduce the risks faced by the estimated two million people working with or near lift trucks. This year, we challenged any UK business using a fork lift truck – whether just one, or a fleet of hundreds – to confirm its own awareness of the basic principles that could, quite literally, save life and limb. The “Go for Gold Challenge” took just a few minutes to do, was completely free of charge, and aimed to give all participants a firm set of safety foundations. |
Members and SUG members can still access our series of short articles on four key aspects of fork lift truck safety: |
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