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Stabiliser shake-up
| 题名： | Stabiliser shake-up |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Peter Shakespeare |
| 摘要： | Following the tragic death of a lorry loader driver/operator at a Skanska site in Bristol in September 2021, less than a year later the tier one construction company led a ban of all loader crane vehicles from construction sites whose stabiliser legs hydradically swing up and rotate across a fixed control panel on the vehicle for storage (pictured). An exception was made for vehicles fitted to prevent the stabiliser beam from being fully retracted with the leg in a horizontal position. The vehicles affected by the ban predominantly deliver lighter bulky items such as cabins and welfare units to site. Dylan Roberts, Skanska UK's director for health, safety, wellbeing and quality, said that prior to the fatality at his company's Shirehampton (Bristol) construction site, the risk of a loader crane operator being trapped against the fixed control panel on the vehicle by a retracting raised stabiliser leg was not perceived. "This type of incident was a complete one-off for us - and I think for most of the industry- and not something we had even previously recorded as a near miss," he explains. "Our expectation was that training and information provided to driver/ operators by their employers was sufficient. The details of how this incident occurred is a matter for the public record, but the safe operation of this type of stabiliser leg relies on the operator knowing where that stabiliser leg is at all times during its operation. We don't know the exact sequence of events that led to this fatality." |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Transport engineer |
| 期： | Aug. |
| 页码： | 26-27 |
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