Whilst you are looking for linde counterbalance forklifts in and around scotland you might like to be aware that an employer was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay over £800 in costs when a HSE inspector noticed an employee being lifted eight feet into the air on a lift truck to fit a company sign to their own premises. Although no one was injured on the occasion, this incident had all the hallmarks of an accident waiting to happen. Accidents involving fork lift trucks account for a large proportion of accidents in the workplace and it is an employer’s responsibility to ensure that drivers are properly trained and use the equipment properly.

Whilst you are looking for linde counterbalance forklifts in and around scotland you might like to be aware that a bakery was fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 following an incident in which one employee was killed and another severely injured whilst using a lift truck to raise a 2 tonne dough mixing machine in order to gain access to the drive belt underneath, which had failed.

While you are trying to find linde counterbalance forklifts in and around scotland you might like to note that that electric lift trucks require a battery charger and that most of the charges require a 3 phase supply, which is not necessarily always available. Single phase chargers are available but they generally only work on low-amp batteries.