Whilst you are looking for new lift trucks in and around Greater London you might like to be aware that an employer was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay over £800 in costs when a HSE inspector noticed an employee being lifted eight feet into the air on a lift truck to fit a company sign to their own premises. Although no one was injured on the occasion, this incident had all the hallmarks of an accident waiting to happen. Accidents involving fork lift trucks account for a large proportion of accidents in the workplace and it is an employer’s responsibility to ensure that drivers are properly trained and use the equipment properly.

If you are searching for new lift trucks in and around Greater London it might be worth considering that if you already own a lift truck and are purchasing another one because you need to upgrade for any number of reasons, then it will usually pay you not to mention that you have a lift truck to trade in until you have negotiated the best price on the new lift truck.

Whilst you are looking for new lift trucks in and around Greater London you might like to be aware that a bakery was fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 following an incident in which one employee was killed and another severely injured whilst using a lift truck to raise a 2 tonne dough mixing machine in order to gain access to the drive belt underneath, which had failed.