Fork Lift Truck Association
Healthy workplaces: Good for you, good for business
p to 20% of all workplace accidents in Europe each year are thought to be directly related to maintenance issues. David Ellison, chief executive of the Fork Lift Truck Association (right) explains the important role of maintenance in running a healthy workplace.
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Just as fork lift truck users depend on service engineers to provide them with safe equipment, so service engineers depend on their customers to provide them with safe workplaces. This interdependence is one that should never be taken for granted.
Healthy Workplaces, the European campaign on safe maintenance, aims to raise awareness of the high risk of serious injury, or even death, as a result of poor maintenance practices and related issues. The campaign, which will run through to November 2011, has been coordinated by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work with the backing of both the European Parliament and European Commission.
The Fork Lift Truck Association fully endorses the aims and objectives of this important campaign, and will continue to do so long after the official closing event.
Healthy trucks, healthy site Companies across all industries invest in fork lift trucks, either by direct purchase or contract hire, to perform a particular task. In practice the user is only interested in
performance levels. And a fork lift truck makes it all look easy – effortlessly lifting a couple of tons time after time. But appearances are deceptive. A fork truck’s work is not effortless and
working parts need to be routinely cleaned, lubricated, cooled, adjusted or replaced. This, however, takes time and resources to achieve.
Without proper maintenance, things can go dramatically wrong in the workplace, creating a very unhealthy environment. Poor maintenance
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