TOPIC 4 - Highly Commended
The company have a facility where lorry drivers can gain safe access to the top of their tankers to de-lid or re-lid, but by design it had heavy lift-up access plates requiring lifting by hand to gain safe access.
Poor posture and manual handling, along with a near hit were the catalyst for change.
Drivers tended to drop the lids instead of lowering them, causing excess noise and shock to travel through the hinges, resulting in a plate becoming detached and dropping five metres to the ground. The lift-up lids were also showing signs of flexing in the wrong direction due to people walking over them.
This involved the following Fatal 6
- Workplace transport and Pedestrian interface
- Work at height
- Struck by moving or falling objects
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