Hospital boosts loading bay safety

Having determined that the existing concrete platform in use at the hospital offered insufficient edge protection during loading and unloading, Booker & Best needed a solution capable of ensuring the safe unloading of consignments of general stores, provisions, and deliveries.

Andy Kershaw, Booker & Best’s contract supervisor, explains: "The Conquest Hospital is a busy, modern district general hospital, with a high incoming delivery rate. The organisation is always looking for ways to progress safety standards and procedures, so was keen to improve its loading bay provision for efficiency and operative safety.”

After working with the hospital’s Estate Manager to establish what actions could be taken to best implement improvements, Booker & Best researched suppliers online and found Thorworld Industries who suggested a bespoke solution.

Kershaw continues: "Thorworld’s design included the loading platform itself, combined with a dock plate, dock bumpers and alignment kerbs, all of which culminate to provide a loading bay system that delivers when it comes to efficiency, practicality, and operator well-being.”

The loading platform and its additional equipment is now fully-functioning, with reports from the hospital indicating good performance.

John Meale, MD of Thorworld Industries, comments: "The selection of a bespoke Thorworld solution underlines our capability to create truly appropriate systems that not only look great on the design board, but really can perform in the loading bay, ticking all the boxes when it comes to both safety and function.

Kershaw concludes: "It’s been our remit to modernise the loading bay at Conquest Hospital, and help deliver a solution capable of improving operator safety, and also function and efficiency.  By working with Thorworld, we’ve successfully fulfilled that requisite, with a solution that’s been designed and manufactured to deliver on all counts for many years to come.