Health & Safety Executive weighs up introducing a maximum pallet weight for deliveries

May 8, 2017 Carol Millett


 

Plans to update Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on pallet weights this year, after continuing concerns regarding the risk to tail-lift delivery drivers, could see pallet weight limits set below the original target of 750kg. News of the change came as the daughter of a driver crushed to death after a 1,100kg of tiles fell on him during a residential delivery  prepared a petition calling for a change in the law to ban individual pallets weighing over 750kg (see […]




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