Platform boost to yard safety
August 1st 2010 Transdek has recently supplied safe
working platforms to NYK Logistics,
Eddie Stobart and YRC Logistics,
providing them with safer means of
unloading in their yards.
The platforms measure 2450mm x
1750mm and have a WLL of 2.5
tonnes. Each platform has forklift
pockets allowing it to be easily
moved around the yard, and
telescopic legs for working at variable
heights. To ensure safe spanning of
any gaps the front edge of each
platform has a 4mm thick, 450mm
wide bridging plate able to withstand
2 tonnes.
Leon Butler, operations director at
Transdek says: "They provide a nice
simple solution to reducing the
hazards associated with unloading in
the yard."
According to statistics available
from the HSE, around 2000 workers
are seriously injured every year as a
result of falling from a vehicle and
about five of these people suffer fatal
injuries.Many of the accidents
involve falls from below head height.
It is estimated that the economic and
human cost of such incidents is in
the order of 36.7 million per year. More articles from Transdek UK Ltd: | 
