Health & Safety Matters

Safety to the fore

Nominations have been unveiled for the FLTA
Awards 2013 and include some outstanding
safety products

The Fork Lift Truck
Association (FLTA) Awards
2013 take place on 16
February, with hopefuls competing
in four pro

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Anti crushing devices

A thought-provoking video
highlighting the need for anti
crushing devices to be fitted to
powered access machines is now
available for viewing on the newlylaunched
WorkZone website at
www.workzone-range.com.

WorkZone

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Support for two

Kee Safety has expanded its KeeLine
range with an overhead life line
system to support two users carrying
out essential maintenance at height.
KeeLine Overhead is a personal
protection system that is mounted
directly ab

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Silence is a virtue

The BT Lifter Silent hand pallet
truck and BT Levio Silent powered
pallet truck from Toyota Material
Handling have been awarded with
the Quiet Mark.

The Quiet Mark is an international
mark of approval awarded by the

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Drum handling

St Clare Engineering’s Grab-OMatic
range of drum and materials
handling pedestrian equipment is
suited for restricted areas where fork
trucks can’t access to lift and move
drums, de-palletise or just generally
move them

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Dock efficiency

Castell has developed a datagathering
and analysis device to
maximise loading dock efficiency.

Salvo DockMonitor combines the
Salvo safety system, a data-gathering
device and a live graphical interface
running on a PC

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Warning system for warehouses

In an aim to decrease the risk
of traffic related accidents in
the workplace, Toyota
Material Handling has
introduced a new solution for
warehouse safety with
SpotMe, a warehouse
warning system. It’s designed
to prote

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Shock absorber

Loading bay equipment specialist
Farrington Industries has secured
the UK and Ireland distribution
rights for what it calls “a unique
range” of shock absorbing protection
bollards. The Softstop system is
already establi

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Double-deck

With increasing pressure on logistics
professionals to switch to double-deck
trailers, Easilift Loading Systems has
devised a simple, effective process to
make a loading dock ready for
double-deck loading in just two day

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Loading bay safety

Thorworld Industries has
highlighted the importance of safety
in the loading and unloading area in
a presentation given during the Fork
Lift Truck Association (FLTA) Safety
Conference. Mark James,
Thorworld’s health & s

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