The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) will once again be playing a full role at IMHX 2016, organising the Design4Safety awards and providing information for potential apprentices across the booming materials handling sector.
For the first time ever IMHX has a Future Skills Zone, highlighting the careers available to young people in Britain’s logistics sector.
Featuring leading employers from across the sector, it also gives them the opportunity to meet the apprentices of the future.
“We aim to show the brightest and the best that they don’t need to choose university as their route to a good career,” said James Clark, BITA Secretary General.
“The former BITA Academy, now the new Forklift Training Engineering Centre (F-TEC), is the industry’s training centre for apprentices and engineers, and will be on hand to provide information on apprenticeships to show how vocational qualifications can provide a path into highly skilled managerial positions.”
BITA is well known for the role it plays in promoting safety across the industry and the aim of the Design4Safety awards is to highlight the importance of product or service design in improving safety standards. By focusing on design for safety the awards recognise innovative thinking, regardless of the type or cost of the product or service.
All exhibitors at IMHX can enter the awards, which provide the opportunity to highlight the crucial safety benefits of their individual products and services, and there are six different categories which encompass the whole materials handling industry:
• Industrial Vehicles
• Automation
• Goods-in/Goods-out
• Racking & Storage
• Technology
• Warehouse infrastructure
Entries should include a 150 word explanation of how the product or service improves safety or eliminates a previously unsafe approach, a high-resolution image, JPEG or GIF, up to 2MB, one additional supporting document and links to online images or video that support the entry.
Products or services don’t have to be newly launched, but must be available at the time of entry and for at least six months after the awards are announced.
Winning entries will be those which provide the strongest evidence of a measurable contribution to the level of safety awareness, or rate of incident reduction, achieved by the design.
At IMHX 2013 winners included Hörmann’s Fork Truck Barrier, Crown Lift Trucks’ rider powered pallet truck and Sentry Protection Products’ Collision Sentry device, which alerts fork lift operators to potential collision risks in warehouses.
The entries should be submitted via the form which can be found at http://www.imhx.biz/design4safety where there are also find the full terms and conditions. The winners will be announced on Thursday 15th September at the IMHX 2016 awards evening.
Visit BITA at IMHX 2016 in hall 11 on stand 11M35.
James Clark
Tel: 01344 623 800
Email: james.clark@bita.org.uk
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