Personal injury solicitors Burnley
regularly see incidents involving unsafe loads. Over 1,200 people are injured due
to unsafe loads on vehicles and businesses break millions of pounds' worth of
goods due to this issue every year.
Some of the dangers posed by unsafe loads
include load falls and shifts inside trailers, which can make a vehicle
difficult to unload and can require manual unloading. When people have to
unload things from inside the trailer, they could fall, items could fall on
them, or they could suffer from manual handling injuries, leading tocompensation claims with no win no fee solicitors Bolton.
People working on lorries could also end up
claiming slip and trip compensation with personal injury solicitors Burnley,
and should therefore wear clean, well-fitting, safe, slip-resistant footwear
when working to ensure they do not slip or trip. The load area should also be
kept clean and tidy, with spillages and dirt cleaned up, and loose ropes and
packaging properly disposed of or stored.
Loads can also shift forward when lorries
and other vehicles rapidly break and slam into the back of the driver seat, potentially
causing serious and catastrophic road accidents. Vehicles can even roll over
and overturn in cases of load shift.
Securing
loads safely
Businesses should therefore ensure every
load is safely secured to ensure they do not see a no
win no fee solicitor Burnley in court. Ensure loads are contained, so they
can't shift around, and are restrained, or firmly tied down. Curtains are not
enough to secure loads - they only offer protection from the weather, and loads
can fall the moment the curtain is opened.
Therefore, any goods that are being
transported on curtain-sided vehicles ought to be fastened in the same way they
would be if they were being moved on a flatbed.
Webbing straps or strong chains attached to
the vehicle are the only way to do this. If a load begins to move around or
shift during transit, then the driver should immediately contact the depot to
come up with a safe solution.
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