When you are trying to find fork lift truck hire in and around East Lothian bear in mind that faulty brakes on a used / secondhand lift truck are extremely dangerous and failure can result in severe injury as well as damage to goods and equipment. The importance of good brakes on a lift truck cannot be overemphasised due to the excessive weight involved.

Whilst you are looking for fork lift truck hire in and around East Lothian you might like to be aware that employers who operate lift trucks need to carry out risk assessments and have clear procedures in place for their operation.

Whilst you are looking for fork lift truck hire in and around East Lothian 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.