Posted By pope2141 The trucks we use have a capacity of 2000kg. Is there a limit based around a pull test. As to what limit is safe for one person to operate. We are having disputes with staff claiming a pallet is too heavy. Even though it is well below the trucks capacity. This is over a smooth even floor.

Posted By Mark Lane Paragraph 23 of L23 has some guidelines for pushing and pulling forces.

Posted By Ron Hunter If this is a routine part of the job, is it reasonable to ask your people to pull (and no doubt push) the equivalent weight of a family saloon car about the floor all day? How does your current approach stand up to the test of "reasonable practicability"? How might the employer's thinking change when the employee (a) sustains a serious injury, (b) HSE call in response to the RIDDOR report or (c) a Civil Claim is brought against your employer? Powered trucks are readily available. They can be bought outright, leased, hired or hire-purchased and there will be obvious gains in efficiency.

Posted By Jim Tassell (2) From experience, I would doubt whether you are able to satisfy the pushing etc limits others note with a pallet loaded to more than about 600Kg, at least for the generality of employees. By the way, when did you last weigh a pallet load? It's quite hard to build a sensibly stable load on an ordinary 1000x1200 pallet that gets much over about a tonne (despite the best efforts of some order pickers who don't understand stability!) excepting bricks etc at perhaps 1.2t - 1.3t. On this basis, the 2000Kg rating is rather academic but maybe that's just the load limit before the little pump in the mechanism gives up.

Posted By andy.c. Jim A pallet of 330ml soft drink as dispatched from the supplier, 24 cans, 120 cases comes in at just under 1200kg, the humble baked bean is even heavier.Depending on the industry in the OP, 1000kg could be routine Crim, Not covered by LOLER as primary function is moving not lifting, however covered by PUWER so some prefer to inspect as other lifting equipment and detail on LOLER paperwork Andy