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15/07/2011

Pallet Truck Lock Improves Health & Safety

Load Safety, Damage To Trailer & Load Addressed By Lee Lock

It is reported that 1200 people a year are injured during the loading and unloading of vehicles at the workplace: 64% of these accidents involved someone falling from height, while 17% saw the victim hit by a falling object or material. To give a comparison against other vehicle injuries, in contrast only 11% of casualties were from someone being hit by a moving vehicle.

Although the Pallet Truck is not a commodity load it still can be a potential load risk. Many transport operators use tyres or just lay a pallet truck on its side while a vehicle is in transit, these unsafe practices could lead to employee injury, damage to the load or to the trailers curtain sides.

One prominent European haulier has addressed this by fitting the Lee Lock to all new trailers and ridged trucks purchasing over 300 Locks in 2011. A statement read ?Employee injury was a major factoring in fitting Lee Locks, when lifting a pallet truck from the floor or a tyre back injury is a potential risk which in today?s world is something we don?t want. We also have spent thousands of pounds repairing curtain sides and also had to deal with damaged loads. Securing this truck helps us improve our Health & Safety and also increases and businesses efficiency by saving money and downtime on vehicle repairs and compensation on damaged commodities.?

Lee Lock is fitted into a trailer or rigid truck and is designed to lock the pallet truck in place at all times, hence reducing any chance of the truck slamming into other pallets or slashing the curtain side.

Addressing a health and safety problem in a simple but ingenious way, the modest one-off price for the Lee Lock is an attractive solution.

For a small investment in the Lee Lock, a transport company will reduce repair costs and insurance claims on damaged goods, not to mention having a driver off work recovering from a back injury.

More From Matthew Burke at aide automoitve on 0115 8456471 or click on Lee Lockto read more.