7 ways to reduce accident risk from your forklift operations
June 17, 2019
One in 25 forklift-related accidents occurs when an operator is entering or exiting the truck. Here are 7 ways to help reduce forklift accidents. Read More
Electric vehicles: How safe are they?
May 16, 2019
Although electric vehicles are helping with the reduction of air pollution, could thier eagerness of noise pollution be putting people at risk? Read More
Company failed to manage transport risks
April 15, 2019
HSE investigation found the company had insufficient measures in place to prevent people being struck by a vehicle and that a protected walkway was provided to only two sides of the yard, but not to the right side between the production sheds and the engineers workshop, a well-used pedestrian route. Read More
Balfour Beatty fine: Third Don Crossing worker struck by wheeled excavator
February 26, 2019
A civil engineering contractor has been fined after an employee of Balfour Beatty Group Employment Limited was fatally injured when he was struck on the body by a wheeled excavator. Read More
Forklifts and pedestrians: How close is too close?
February 25, 2019
One look at the frequency and severity of UK forklift accidents should be enough to convince anyone that wherever possible, we must do more to keep lift trucks and pedestrians apart. Read More
Worker fatally crushed at paper mill leading to fines for two companies
February 22, 2019
HSE investigation discovered that no safe system of work was in place to segregate pedestrians and vehicles. It also found that drivers driving large shovel loaders had limited visibility. Read More
Employee crushed to death by bus
February 18, 2019
David Nelson was working beneath a single decker bus in a vehicle inspection pit when it fell and crushed him to death. Read More
£600k fine after worker killed by dumper truck
February 5, 2019
Vincent Ramsay, 55, was killed on a building site when a dumper truck ran over him at the bottom of a dirt ramp. The father-of four had been crouching down to spray markings when he was hit. Read More
Reversing vehicle struck driver
January 28, 2019
The HSE found that safety controls, principally the use of an allocated pre-use vehicle check area, were not being followed by the company’s lorry drivers. Read More
Vulnerable patient fatally injured
December 7, 2018
Patient died after opening a door and leaping from a minibus which was travelling at speed. Read More
