Archive for the 'Vehicle Safety' Category

Industrial Weighing Scales - 4 Key Points to Look at When Buying a Scale Online

There are several key points that need to take into consideration before buying weighing scales, these points are below and will help guide you into buying the correct scale for your application.
What is the maximum weight you want to weigh up to?
The maximum weight required includes any TARE weights that you may need, for instance [...]

Looking For the Right BIM Outsourcing Partner

Building Information Modeling is metamorphosing the AEC industry by forming the skill to virtually create a project on your desktop. The categorization of progressive technology is a center strategy for AEC industries as they are functioning towards developing profitability and improving efficiency. Lachmi Khemlani has wrote “lots of people have argued that disparate BIM, CAD [...]

Very narrow aisle trucks bring productivity

The increasing adoption of very narrow aisles in warehousing and storage has lead to a number of design challenges for lift truck manufacturers and a resurgence in narrow-aisle innovation.
The increasing adoption of very narrow aisles in warehousing and storage applications has lead to a number of design challenges for lift truck manufacturers and a resurgence [...]

How to Become a Heavy Equipment Operator

Contrary to the common myth, the job of a heavy equipment operator is not confined to just operating the bulldozer. Nor is it a gender specific vocation since both men and women are employed in this field.
If you can operate large machinery, are willing to work as a team, possess satisfactory communication skills and are [...]

Floorcoverings reduce operators’ standing fatigue

Self draining and slip resistant anti fatigue floor coverings are designed to provide excellent cushioning, which enhances comfort underfoot and reduces operators’ standing fatigue
Greater awareness of the benefits of anti fatigue floor coverings is partly the result of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Trades Union efforts to improve the welfare of employees. On site [...]

A-Plant signals growth with Traffic acquisition

Multi award-winning company A-Plant has become the UK’s largest provider of Traffic Systems on a rental basis by acquiring Lux Traffic Controls Limited for 15.5 million pounds
Over 40 Lux locations have been immediately amalgamated into the A-Plant network and when added to A-Plant’s existing dedicated Traffic depots, form a combined operation comprising over 50 dedicated [...]

Combilift opens the doors to safer handling

Combilift 4-way forklift brings benefits such as shorter loading time to the Stockport branch of Indupart , the largest industrial door manufacturer in the UK
Safer handling of extreme lengths and a 50 per cent cut in loading time are just some of the benefits that a Combilift 4-way forklift has brought to operations at the [...]

High Speed Roller Doors for demanding environments

The new Sprint 600 from sara/Loading Bay specialists
sara will be launching their new Sprint 600 at the forthcoming IMHX exhibition (Birmingham NEC). The Sprint 600 is an innovative new door from the world’s largest manufacturer of High-Speed Roller Doors. The new door has been developed to cope with the most demanding environments and intensive traffic [...]

Thorough Examination prescribed by specialist

Is your fork lift truck in good shape - or is it a health hazard?
Visitors to IMHX 2007 (NEC, Birmingham, 13th to 16 th March) will be offered the opportunity of a consultation with Chas Day, a specialist with Consolidated Fork Truck Services (CFTS), who will be prescribing CFTS Thorough Examinations. Thorough Examination is a [...]

Improved safety for conveyors at docking bays

New RollerTrack from Caljan Rite-Hite
The latest product range from Caljan Rite-Hite is the new RollerTrack conveyor family, designed to improve safety and efficiency at docking bays. All its models are fully underguarded with metal plates, protecting workers from the mechanism underneath. This makes them unique and means Roller Track complies with EN619 2002, a European [...]