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CPN Consultant Editor Nick Johnson checks out the latest VCAS object detection system that has been developed to help make large site dumpers safer on site. Objects detected Articulated site dumpers with front mounted skips carrying as much as 10 tonnes are now commonplace on many UK construction sites. Yet some people question how these […]
Closer collaboration between all levels of the plant and construction supply chain could hold the answer to removing blind spots that cause numerous injuries and fatalities every year. This became apparent during the launch of Spillard Safety Systems’ latest objection detection system and was followed by a debate involving plant hire firms, vehicle manufacturers and […]
Wolverhampton-based Spillard Safety Systems will be exhibiting amongst some of the biggest names in the industry at RWM 2015 on 15-17 September, such as SITA, Novelis, Dennis Eagle etc. With 650 exhibitors and sponsors attending, organizers at the NEC will be expecting to attract more than 13,000 spectators. Investing in a stand at the show […]
A new mobile classroom designed to showcase the blind spots that affect construction and quarry machinery and vehicles was launched recently at Plantworx 2015. Wolverhampton-based Spillard Safety Systems has taken its message on the road to help reduce the number of injuries caused by accidents as a result of a lack of vision…an issue that […]
SED 2007 Awards for excellence – SPILLARD SAFETY SYSTEMS LTD – VCAS The awards were given to the most innovative new products introduced to the UK market during the past year, judged by an independent panel of industry experts, the awards are an accolade to the very best in plant, construction machinery, support products and applications. […]
A banksman was killed when a motor grading machine reversed over him. Ilkeston magistrates heard on 13 March that the incident occurred in August 2003 during construction of a large car park at Burnaston, near Derby. The banksman, working with the motor grading machine which is used for levelling earth or stones on the ground. […]
UK quarry companies gathered in London last month to hear who had scooped the top prizes in the Quarry Products Association’s Health and Safety Best Practice Awards. From 143 initial entries, a final tally of 44 award-winners across eight categories lined up alongside the winners of three unique awards for 2005.
Staff at Imerys’ Blackpool Pit have good cause to celebrate after their site was recently judged to be the safest quarry in the country by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
Centurion Safety Products have received an award in the Highly Commended category of this year’s British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) Product Innovation Awards for their new ABS Concept safety helmet.
For the second year in a row, Alfred McAlpine Slate Ltd have received a prestigious accolade for their health and safety performance.