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Load safety: a reminder “SAFELY SECURE LOADS” A REMINDER… For drivers & their supervisors October 2002 Oct/02 1

Load safety: a reminder Did you learn from this fatality? Oct/02 2

Load safety: a reminder No you did not !! There are still badly secured loads traveling on our roads today !!! See the next few slides …. Oct/02 3

Load safety: a reminder Oct/02 This is a 45 ton bulldozer that fell off a low bed trailer because…. . . 4

Load safety: a reminder Should have used: - 4 chains - wood deck low-bed Driver should have: - travelled at speed safe for load and road conditions Oct/02 • Only two chains were used: not enough for a 45 ton dozer! • Steel tracks on steel low-bed: low friction factor! • Poor supervision: wrongly approved the loading (staff not properly trained) • Driver: - too fast round a sharp bend - braked harshly 5

Load safety: a reminder ANOTHER EXAMPLE : Single chain Rock-breaker loose on the deck • a 28 ton backhoe retained with just ONE chain • the rock-breaker is totally unrestrained Both would fall off in sharp or sudden turn: and could easily kill someone. . . Oct/02 6

Load safety: a reminder Can you believe this? ? Wrong: Oct/02 • • high bed trailer • chains slack and wrongly positioned headboard split & broken: no protection to driver (would be crushed if load moved forward) 7

Load safety: a reminder • Very slack chains • Trailer bed is too narrow • No chocks • Incorrect chain angles • Tyres overhang trailer: an unstable load ! Oct/02 8

Load safety: a reminder It is not only large loads that are not being secured correctly !! It also applies to “small” items. Oct/02 This truck is loaded with oil drums: 2 drums stand loose! These can easily fall over, roll around, get damaged and leak. 9

Load safety: a reminder Here is a tall wooden crate restrained by a web lashing which had broken and was knotted in two places Do not use lashings with knots: they are NOT strong Throw them away! Destroy them! Do NOT use them! Oct/02 10

Load safety: a reminder Another totally unsecured load: • six pallets of flexible water pipe with no lashings or any other load restraint used • a length of rope had been placed across the top of the pallets, probably for decoration! • web lashing belts should have been used • they were lucky this load did not fall off…… Oct/02 11

Load safety: a reminder NOTE to Managers/Supervisors: • This presentation is a REMINDER of the importance of load safety and good load securing. Prevent further accidents due to poor load securing. Follow the guidelines on the PDO-Dt. S web: http: //www. pdo. co. om/hseforcontractors/dts/loads. htm User Name: pdohse 01 Password: contractor 01 • A detailed specification (SP-2001) is being written and will be issued by end 2002. • In the meantime: follow the British Department of Transport “Load Securing Code of Practice” which is available on the same website. • Another excellent Australian load securing guide with more pictures and diagrams is also available on the same website. • For further information: CSM/15 tel: 67 -7956 Oct/02 12

Load safety: a reminder Load Securing Guidelines Know them! Follow them! Oct/02 13