Advice on boosting safety

HSS magazine was inspired to launch the Safer Logistics Campaign by the Health & Safety Executive. With the remit of the HSE growing narrower, every contribution counts and the HSE has 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.

Safer Logistics is a feature and seminar area at The Health & Safety Event at The NEC Birmingham, which gives hard-pressed warehousing and logistics professionals a chance to pick up advice and guidance from experts and peers who have rolled out safety initiatives on the past.

We’re delighted to partner with first-rate industry bodies to help us 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. This includes an excellent annual Safety Conference driven by the institute’s Transport & Logistics Safety Forum.

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.

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.

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We’re pleased to say that A-Safe and Toyota Material Handling UK have been signed up as sponsors for Safer Logistics at the NEC in 2018.

We will shortly reveal the full seminar programme for both events.

Simon Duddy, chairman of the Safer Logistics Campaign and Editor of Handling & Storage Solutions magazine said: “The Safer Logistics Seminar Theatre is now well established at The Health & Safety Event and we are 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, as well as Scotland Works, 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.”

Safer Logistics Campaign

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: 

Angela Lyus on 01342 836275 or email: [email protected]

www.healthandsafetyevents.co.uk