HSE: Firm sentenced after Forklift Incident
HSE has released information about a Scottish firm which has been fined for safety failings after an employee was seriously injured by a forklift. The incident occurred when the driver of the forklift truck reversed and then moved forward, which resulted in a collision with the employee concerned who was walking backwards at the time. The HSE investigation into the incident found that they had failed to ‘provide sufficient segregation between pedestrians and vehicles’ and that they had also failed to provide ‘sufficient instruction to control vehicle movements in the area while pedestrian were working’. The dangers of warehouse vehicles… Read more