25.09.2015
When will they ever learn?
Spotted this morning at 8:00 in Cleethorpes, UK a van mounted lift working over an open road with little attempt to control or warn traffic of the overhead obstacle.
This is the second time this company has made it into our Death Wish series in three months. The same contributor spotted two of its van mounts working in the same town, where there are plenty of buses and high sided vehicles on the roads.
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Working over the open road in Cleethorpes
In the words of our correspondent: “Further to my email on the 24th July, it still seems like the same company has still not learnt, taken this morning at 8:00 on the main shopping street parallel to the first incident on Cleethorpes sea front, at least they have made an attempt to put some cones out but it looks like they are still awaiting the double decker 9X bus to come”.
Definitely one for our Death Wish series, and someone should go and speak tot he company with the red vans. Perhaps offer them an IPAF training course before their work ends in tears. There have been numerous examples of high sided vehicles clipping the platforms of lifts working alongside or over the road with most resulting in fatalities.
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If this is the company we think it is it is a first class, well respected business which does- on the face of it - take health & safety very seriously. It even says about its founder - "the health and safekeeping of his own workforce was of paramount importance when founding the group and it remains so to this day"
Hopefully it will take a look at how it works over streets.
Timothy Sherratt
Are they putting up Christmas decorations in September? 3 months seems ample time to get training in the safe use of MEWP/AWPs not that they bothered in the last 3 months. Sadly it seems the only qualification most companies think you need to operate one of these is a driving license, IPAF and common sense don't enter the picture.