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#1 Posted : 08 June 2006 14:29:00(UTC)
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Posted By Mark Gordon
Hi Guys

Can anyone please point me in the direction of some industry/HSE guidance that deals with dock levelling equipment. I need to review our SSOW and want to use industry best practise as a guide if poss. We have had a few incidents involving trapped body parts and uncontrolled use. Thank you

MG
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#2 Posted : 08 June 2006 16:05:00(UTC)
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Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney
Mark

I suspect what may be of use to you is BS EN 1398:1998 a BSI document of some 19 pages, dedicated to dock levellers.

Hope that helps you.

CFT
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#3 Posted : 08 June 2006 20:00:00(UTC)
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Posted By Martin Taylor
On a similar topic can anybody point me to commercial equipment which provides fall protection at the edge of an open dock whilst allowing the dock to be loaded with a pallet from a forklift truck outside

thanks

Martin
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#4 Posted : 09 June 2006 08:32:00(UTC)
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Posted By Brian Hagyard
Martin.

Try the canal engineering web site (www.canalengineering.co.uk) and look at the Ajax – High Level Safety Barriers. I am sure many other companies have similar systems. This one just happened to be advertising in a magazine I had on my desk. I have seen companies try to construct their own versions of these systems, but often they get the counterbalancing totally wrong, and while a fall from heights risk is removed they introduce a massive manual handling and trapping risk.

Brian.
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#5 Posted : 09 June 2006 09:44:00(UTC)
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Posted By Mark Gordon
Thank you Guys

MG
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#6 Posted : 09 June 2006 15:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By Roy Scott2
heres an interesting site www.salvosafe.com , i had it installed in one site with good success.
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#7 Posted : 09 June 2006 16:29:00(UTC)
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Posted By Mark Gordon
Thank you Roy
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