Environment, Training, Health and Safety June 2010
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Environment, Training, Health and Safety June 2010 | Wednesday 23rd June 2010 |
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Wincanton’s Caroline Barber has won the MAN Everywoman in Transport and Logistics ‘Rising Star of the Year’ award. Caroline returned recently from an 18-month secondment to Lusaka where she worked with the Industrial Training Centre Trust (ITCT) as Country Programme Manager of Transaid’s Professional Driver Training Project. Chris Saunders, Chief Executive of Transaid, praised the winner’s ‘hard work and dedication’ to the venture which now encompasses forklift and bus driver schemes as well as the original goods vehicle driver training project.
The recent Safety & Health Expo 2010 at the Birmingham NEC was opened by HSE board member Judith Donovan. In her opening address, the message to companies was that they should ‘do health and safety’ because they believe in it rather than simply to comply with legislation. Praising the UK’s strong record on workplace safety, the winner of last year’s IOSH Lifetime Achievement Award warned against complacency and stressed the importance of embedding proper practice through both leadership and worker involvement in creating a good health and safety culture.
It isn’t just on public roads that the recent epidemic of pot holes is causing problems, according to Jungheinrich UK. The damage caused to warehouse, factory and other yards by the freezing conditions earlier this year presents a risk of accidents to forklifts designed to operate on flat, even surfaces. To avoid the potential for injuries to personnel and costly damage to vehicles and goods, the company’s Peter Scott points to the ready availability of ‘repair kits’ and recommends the swift repair of any damage to areas where trucks operate.
The Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) is to launch its new apprenticeship and Safety Awards programmes at Logistics Link Live as well as promoting its successful annual Safety Conference which takes place in September. The Association also ran its second National Fork Lift Safety Week in 2009.
Logistics Link Live 2010 takes place from 16-17 June at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and will feature live demonstrations of the latest innovations in forklift safety from manufacturers including Linde and Doosan.
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