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News Release from: Fork Lift Truck Association
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 December 2004
FLTA welcomes 100th member of Safe User
Group
Medway Ports has become the 100th member of FLTA Safe User Group.
Medway Ports has become the 100th member of FLTA Safe User Group The Fork Lift Truck Association is delighted to welcome Medway Ports as the 100th member of its Safe User Group
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Part of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, Kent-based Medway Ports is one of the largest organisations to have taken up the FLTA's offer of help with the heavy burden of responsibility for safety.
Others in the Safe User Group range from small local businesses with single trucks to national giants operating huge fleets.
Medway Ports runs the large commercial port of Sheerness, as well as Chatham Docks.
It is also the statutory harbour, pilotage and conservancy authority for a 27.2-mile stretch of the Rivers Medway and Swale.
Most of its materials handling work is focused on Sheerness.
Among other things, Medway is the UK's biggest importer of fruit, one of the largest importers of timber products (including wood, paper and pulp) and a major importer of cars.
Its fork lifts, which are usually acquired on contract hire, number around 200 and range from pedestrian pallet trucks to 45-tonne reach stackers for use with containers.
Asked why the company joined, engineering superintendent David Shoebridge said: "Medway Ports has a strong culture of health and safety - and sets itself very high standards".
We wanted to make sure we were fully aware of the issues, and that all policy decisions were made on the basis of good information and advice".
To take just one example, within days of joining the SUG David was able to settle a debate on the use of a damaged overhead guard by referring to the FLTA's authoritative technical guidelines on restraining systems".
Although it's too early to have digested everything we've received, the FLTA literature all looks good and promises to be very useful," he added".
We will certainly be putting it into practice and, furthermore, we will be insisting that the companies we rent from comply with it".
For the FLTA, chairman Richard Baxter said: "We are delighted to have Medway Ports on board and to see the Safe User Group continuing its expansion.
"We have no doubt that this company, like the many others who are joining, will very quickly appreciate the full value of the concise, relevant information, the members' helpline and the many other services we provide".
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