No one ever starts their day hoping to be injured. No supervisor looks forward to taking employees to casualty. And it should go without saying that no manager ever hopes to tell a family that their loved one was hurt – or worse – while at work.
Yet the reality is that every day in Britain one worker is hospitalised or killed as a result of a fork lift truck accident. These days, we’re all under pressure to deliver bigger, better and faster results with fewer resources, at lower cost. That pressure is even greater for managers, who are often required to juggle conflicting responsibilities and multiple roles.
And still it’s your duty, to protect employees under your care.
It’s down to you to understand, establish and enforce good practice. You must notice when rules are broken and you are the one who must identify potential accidents, and prevent them. You select the staff, book the training, set the targets and – most importantly – influence the culture.
Yet many managers are required to perform all of these tasks without having undergone any fork lift truck specific awareness training.
This means that in many warehouses important day-to-day decisions are made and implemented by supervisors who are no better equipped to recognise unsafe practice than the employees they are attempting to protect.
Check your awareness
It’s clearly a dangerous position – and it’s a reality in far too many UK workplaces.
With this in mind, the Fork Lift Truck Association will give visitors to IMHX the opportunity to check their safety awareness, rule out any blind spots and potentially, win prizes.
Located in the heart of the show on stand 19K126, the “Play it Safe” challenge is completely free of charge. Each day, one top-scoring contestant will win a year’s free Membership of the FLTA Safe User Group – as part of a safety prize bundle worth £400.
The Fork Lift Truck Association
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