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Small to Medium
Business : As a small to medium business operators facing day-to-day
pressures of running a business, the thought of having a OH&S management
system in place to manage health and safety can be overwhelming.
However managing health and safety and return to work doesn’t need
to be difficult.
Call us for a
free quotation on how we can assist your organisation in developing
a health and safety business framework.
Forklift
Traffic Management
Companies should develop and implement forklift traffic management
plans in order to keep drivers and pedestrians safe and physically
separated, so far as reasonably practicable. The Traffic Management
plan should include:
- risk controls,
- efficient travel routes,
- use pedestrian and forklift
exclusion zones,
- safety zones for truck drivers,
- safety barriers,
- floor markings,
- containment fences and speed
limiting devices and signs.
- where practicable; the possibility
of substituting forklifts with other suitable load shifting
equipment.
Forklifts causes more workplace deaths
and injuries than any other plant and equipment. More than half
the people killed in forklift-related incidents in the last 10 years
have been pedestrians. Even at low-speed forklifts can kill.
All stakeholders should be involved in the traffic management planning,
and all personnel at the workplace, including contractors and visitors,
must be advised about the workplace’s traffic management plan
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