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On 25 March 2022 , Jeffrey Owen was sentenced to five years jail, suspended having served 18 months imprisonment, over a workplace incident in which his friend was crushed to death by a falling generator being moved with a forklift from the back of a truck.
Continue reading “Queensland Industrial Manslaughter Conviction”
On the afternoon of Sunday 23 January 2022, a lithium-ion battery attached to a cordless impact wrench exploded after it was left on the back seat of a vehicle over the weekend. The explosion ignited other material left on the seat and severely damaged the interior of the vehicle.
The incident occurred in Darwin where the outside temperature at the time was approximately 31°. The cordless impact wrench and battery was manufactured by a reputable company.
More information is available in the safety alert issued by WorkSafe NT, here
Currently, there is evidence of Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) circulation in pigs in South-Eastern Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Victoria and South Australia – (Link)
Safe Work Australia has developed new work health and safety (WHS) guidance on Japanese encephalitis for persons conducting a business or undertaking.
Continue reading “Japanese Encephalitis: Safe Work Australia Guidance”
Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has welcomed one of its biggest crops of forklift technician apprentices in its 2022 Annual Apprentice Intake, with 15 new inductees brought into the program.
An induction ceremony on April 21 saw the 15 new apprentices attend accompanied by mentors from their respective TMHA branches, where they were welcomed by senior TMHA executives including president CEO Steve Takacs. Mr Takacs also presented the new apprentices with their tools of the trade, marking a significant investment directly to the inductees.
Continue reading “TMHA Welcomes 15 New Forklift Apprentices Into Training Program”
The NSW Resources Regulator has issued a safety alert regarding an forklift roll over incident on a NSW mine site recently.
The incident occurred with an unladen forklift moving at speed.
The operator was was wearing his seat belt and received only minor injuries despite the severity of the accident.
The full incident report is available here
Following the Brisbane floods in 2011 the Australian Forklift and Industrial Truck Association (AFITA) became aware of issues with the sale of flood damaged forklifts (insurance write-offs).
Although these machines were sold for on the basis of being for spare parts only, there were instances of them being repaired and offered for sale as second-hand working forklifts or put into the hire market instead of being dismantled and used as spare parts.
Recent major floods in Queensland and NSW again raise the risk of this happening. Continue reading “Flood Damaged Forklift Trucks”
The NSW Transport Update of 29 July 2021 is here
COVID-19 testing requirements
Transport NSW have produced a summary of the COVID testing requirements for the transport and logistics industry.
Following the success presentation of Forklift Safety Week via online webinar the Australian Forklift and Industrial Trucks Association (AFITA) has decided to present regular online Safety Seminars.
Presenter: Mike Croxford, Crown Equipment
Moderator: Craig Williams, Clark Equipment
Australian Standard compliant forklifts are required to have capacity plates placed in a position where they can be seen from the operator’s position. They show the maximum load limits for a forklift under various configurations of mast tilt and load heights and in combination with attachments.
Continue reading “AFITA Online Forklift Safety Seminar – Forklift Capacity plates”
With the decision to move the 2020 Forklift Safety Week online as a series of webinars allowed the webinars to be recorded so the could be available after the webinars.
Website upgrades to allow video viewing to be online have now been completed and the first of the videos has been posted to the AFITA Website.
This video is taken from the first of four webinars presented by AFITA as part of Forklift Safety Week 2020
Standards, Safety and Industrial Trucks
The video link is here
Presenter: Mike Croxford, Crown Equipment
Moderator: Craig Williams, Clark Equipment