National Forklift Safety Day (NFSD) returns for 2021 with a new theme focused on ensuring that all material handling equipment (MHE) remains safe for use.
As the material handling industry emerges from effects of a series of COVID-19 lockdowns, companies reliant on material handling equipment (MHE) must ensure their MHE is in good condition with no dangerous defects or deterioration.
If MHE has been idle during lockdown, then management has a responsibility to ensure it is safely recommissioned and the best way of ensuring this is to have the equipment examined by a suitably qualified competent person.
National Forklift Safety Day is a global initiative, originally established in the United States in 2014, aimed at raising awareness of the safe use of forklift trucks and the importance of proper operator training.