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Research just published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) examines the safety implications of using roll containers.
Roll containers are half pallet-sized platforms with a wire cage and four running castors. Also known as rollcages or roll pallets, they are widely used in warehouses and supermarkets to transport goods.
As the containers are manually handled in most situations and can carry up to 500kg of goods when fully loaded, they have increasingly become a significant source of accidents.
This report on the safety of roll containers:
A video has also been produced as a training aid for both enforcement officers and industry. It illustrates the factors involved in roll container accidents and how these can be avoided.
This report and the work it describes were funded by the HSE. Its contents, including any opinions and/or conclusions expressed, are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect HSE policy.
Copies of Safety of roll containers (Research Report 009), ISBN 0 7176 2535 4, price £15, and the video Rolling safely along, ISBN 0 7176 2555 9, price £25 plus VAT, are available from HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2WA, tel: 01787 881165 or fax: 01787 313995. Priced publications are also available from good booksellers.
HSE Research Reports are available on the HSE website at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/crr/index.htm
: Philip Gibson 020 7717 6219. Out of hours 020 7928 8382.
For press review copies telephone 020 7717 6917.
Call HSE's InfoLine, tel: 0845 345 0055
or write to: HSE Information Services, Caerphilly Park, Caerphilly
CF83 3GG.
Published on the HSE web site on 21 November 2002