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HSE campaign on safety of loads
25 January 2010
HSE has published guidance on safety of loads on its website as part of its ongoing campaign
Loading and unloading accounts for one in five workplace transport incidents- many resulting from loads not being properly restrained. Unsafe loads on vehicles injure more than 1,200 people a year and cost UK businesses millions of pounds in damaged goods.
There will be eight days of spot checks at locations across the North West, with officers from HSE and the Vehicle Operator Services Agency (VOSA) inspecting the loads of vehicles that have been pulled over at random. Similar spot checks took place in April last year with close to 80 per cent of loads found not to be sufficiently restrained.
To support the campaign, HSE has published advice on safety of loads on its website - http://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/loadsafety/index.htm. The web pages illustrate what can go wrong and give advice on ways of making sure that loads are properly secured.
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