Transdek has supplied safe working
platforms to NYK Logistics, Eddie Stobart
and YRC Logistics, providing them with
safer means of unloading in their yards.

The platforms measure 2450 x 1750mm
and have a WLL of 2.5t. Each platform has
forklift pockets allowing it to be easily moved
around the yard, and telescopic
legs for working at variable
heights. To ensure safe spanning
of any gaps the front edge of
each platform has a 4mm thick,
450mm wide bridging plate able
to withstand 2t.

Leon Butler, operations
director at Transdek says: “They
provide a nice simple solution to
reducing the hazards associated
with unloading in the yard.”
According to statistics
available from the HSE, around
2000 workers are seriously
injured every year as a result of
falling from a vehicle and about five of these
people suffer fatal injuries.

Many of the accidents involve falls from
below head height. It is estimated that the
economic and human cost of such incidents
is in the order of 36.7 million per year.