Whilst you are looking for ausa lift trucks in and around Chatham ME4 you might like to be aware that a lift truck driver working at a sawmill was fined £1,750 after an incident in which he was driving a lift truck with a stack of 12 modular sheds. The sheds obscured the drivers vision and as a result he hit a fellow employee with the load causing a fractured pelvis, cuts and bruises. It is important that individuals are aware that they, as well as their employer, have duties under the law to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work. In this case the employer had employed an in-house lift truck trainer and the driver had received regular refresher training and re-testing and as a result it was the employee not the employer that was fined for this incident.

When you are searching for ausa lift trucks in and around Chatham ME4 you might like to note that with electric lift trucks, when a breakdown occurs then a specially trained technician is usually required to make the repair; they don’t climb ramps very easily and they don’t generally respond well to heavy pushing or pulling.

Tip - When you are investigating ausa lift trucks in and around Chatham ME4 it may help to be aware that pallet trucks are manual trucks that will pick up a pallet and move it around a warehouse and are quite inexpensive. Battery operated pallet trucks are available but often the cost increase in adding the battery will make it just as cheap to buy a decent used forklift.