Enviroment, Training , Health and Safety April 2010
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Enviroment, Training , Health and Safety April 2010 | Wednesday 14th April 2010 |
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The eagerly awaited IMHX exhibition is, according to organiser Quartz, aiming to be a carbon neutral event by offsetting the carbon released in putting on the show and by visitor travel to the event at the Birmingham NEC in November. Shell Gas (LPG) is sponsoring an Environment Zone where visitors to the event will be able to calculate their carbon footprint from attending IMHX using a web-based carbon calculator. Featuring a green-styled lounge area, the Zone is expected to offer a popular and useful break from the busy pace of the show.
Skills for Logistics has launched a website promoting logistics as an important and dynamic career choice for young people. The site is funded by trustees of the Road Haulage and Distribution Training Council and is managed by Skills for Logistics which has developed and championed the online project. Chief Executive of Skills for Logistics, Mike Jackson, described the collaboration as a ‘great example of what can be achieved when trade associations from across the logistics industry work...to present a single view of career opportunities for the whole sector.’
Hybrid parcel delivery trucks operated in the United States by FedEx have accounted for some 5 million of the 30 million miles that have now been completed by Eaton hybrid commercial vehicles. Eaton has spent ten years gathering and collating data from some 24,000 systems in use in delivery vehicles, buses, refuse freighters and utility vehicles. FedEx claim that, with Eaton’s help, it has reduced its fuel use by nearly 200,000 gallons and its emissions by almost 2,000 tonnes since 2004.
A driver trainer from Hoyer UK, Chris Hill, has just returned from a 12 day commercial vehicle driver training mission to Lusaka. A part of international development charity Transaid’s collaboration with Zambia’s Industrial Training Centre Trust, the course, delivered to local driver trainers, covered both safer driving and handling hazardous chemicals. The importance of training like this, the second such mission undertaken by staff from Hoyer UK, cannot be underestimated given the fact that road deaths are the third biggest killer in sub-Saharan Africa behind HIV/ AIDS and malaria.
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