The Compliance and Complacency of Using Forklifts
Forklifts, although relatively small pieces of plant and equipment are known to be one of the most hazardous workplace vehicles.
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There are many areas in workplace safety that are important and of interest to our readers. However, there is one standout article that discusses workplace hazard recognition, recalling, reporting and rectifying.
This article reviews an experiment that was designed to assess the capacity to recall, recognise and report workplace hazards. Hazard awareness is fundamental to safety, and employee skills. The ability to recognise, recall and report workplace hazards are critical.
Our workplace safety articles cover topics that look at your safety obligations, management of hazards and risks and the role of new technologies. The articles place these topics into a variety of industry contexts so that you can address workplace safety according to your organisation’s needs and responsibilities.
Forklifts, although relatively small pieces of plant and equipment are known to be one of the most hazardous workplace vehicles.
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Benjamin Franklin famously advised fire-threatened Philadelphians in 1736 that “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Clearly,
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Business is always looking for better ways to train their employees and safety training is one area that improvement sees
Over several decades there has been considerable effort by organisations to reduce manual handling injuries. The focus has been on
High risk industries such as construction have a clear focus to reduce risk. Currently, most safety inspections on construction sites
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