Safer Logistics to showcase talented line-up

The Safer Logistics Seminar and Feature area is building on last year’s exciting debut with a better than ever line-up of educational partners to provide first class presentations tackling key safety hot spots in the world of warehousing and logistics.

The Health & Safety Event at The NEC Birmingham has now firmly established itself as the home of health and safety in the UK and takes place from March 22-24 2016.

The harsh reality is the warehouse and logistics setting sees too many deaths and brutal injuries despite the steady progress that has been made over the years.

Whether crushed by tumbling metal loads from poorly planned racking (Go to http://bit.ly/1Q3hRlc), trapped under their own overturned forklifts (Go to http://bit.ly/1XLIA7b), or struck by runaway lorries (Go to http://bit.ly/1Rs5htj), to be quite frank, a job in warehousing and logistics can kill you and become a living nightmare for surviving families.

That’s why we’re delighted to partner with first-rate industry bodies to help boost logistics safety.

The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT) is a formidable membership organisation dedicated to promoting excellence in logistics. It constitutes the greatest resource of professional expertise within its areas of interest and has run many forums designed to promote best practice in logistics safety, raise awareness of safety concerns and influence safety improvements. 

The Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) exists to maintain and raise standards in the materials handling industry and leads from the front on safety with an expansive range of initiatives that take managers and operators A to Z through forklift safety. These include the Safe User Group, the Safer Site Programme, and a top notch forklift dedicated Safety Conference, to name just a few.

The United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) is Britain’s leading trade organisation representing the third party logistics (3PL) sector. A key industry thought leader, UKWA has a strong focus on warehouse and logistics safety.

The Food Storage & Distribution Federation (FSDF) is the sole UK trade body that focuses on representing and supporting the interests of the entire food and drink logistics industry. Its safety initiatives include the Health and Safety Leadership Programme, and the Health & Safety Awards.

RTITB (formerly the Road Transport Industry Training Board) provide people working in the transport, warehousing and logistics industries with the tools they need for training. Thriving in its role of thought leader, RTITB offers expertise right across the logistics world from forklifts to lorries.

We are also delighted to welcome back sponsor Toyota Material Handling UK, who will be making a presentation on each of the three days of the Safer Logistics Conference.

We will shortly reveal the full seminar programme.

Simon Duddy, chairman of the Safer Logistics Campaign and Editor of Handling & Storage Solutions magazine said: “The Safer Logistics Seminar Theatre made its debut at the Health & Safety Event last year and we were delighted with the standard of presentations. They helped attendees learn about a wide variety of logistics safety hot spots from loading bay drive-aways to managing forklift operators and identifying risks in road transport. We will build on the success of the seminar theatre with this year’s event and our ongoing Safer Logistics Campaign which seeks to ensure that safety is a ongoing concern, not an occasional exercise to be filed away and forgotten.”

HSS magazine was inspired to launch the Safer Logistics Campaign by the keynote address given by Jane Willis, cross-cutting interventions director, Health and Safety Executive at the 2013 Safety Conference held by the Fork Lift Truck Association. With the remit of the HSE growing narrower, every contribution counts and Jane encouraged media, managers and industry bodies to show leadership and ‘be part of the solution’.

As a media outlet we can help to promote health and safety awareness across the logistics and materials handling sector.

The campaign focuses on what you can do, as warehousing and logistics professionals. There are clear safety first principles that are well worth repeating.

• If you doubt the safety of a working practice, stop. Talk to your supervisor or manager and agree a safe way of proceeding. Don’t carry on and hope for the best.

• No matter who you are in the management structure or workforce, take responsibility for your safety, don’t assume someone else has taken care of it.

The campaign emphasises sound, practical principles designed to tackle ignorance and complacency in the workplace. Complacency is one of the biggest dangers as logistics employees carry out repetitive tasks day-in, day-out and it is one of the toughest toughest problems to tackle.

It is vital to push home the message that poor health & safety practices have no place in the modern logistics world.

To borrow a phrase from a successful fork lift safety campaign carried out by Babcock International, make ‘Home safe, every day’ the priority.

To inquire about exhibiting at The Health and Safety Event contact: Tim Else 01342 333722 [email protected]; Sally Anne Wood 01342 333720 [email protected]; Jos Diamond 01342 333723 [email protected].

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