Whilst you are looking for second hand forklifts in and around buckinghamshire you might like to be aware that a lift truck driver working at a sawmill was fined £1,750 after an incident in which he was driving a lift truck with a stack of 12 modular sheds. The sheds obscured the drivers vision and as a result he hit a fellow employee with the load causing a fractured pelvis, cuts and bruises. It is important that individuals are aware that they, as well as their employer, have duties under the law to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work. In this case the employer had employed an in-house lift truck trainer and the driver had received regular refresher training and re-testing and as a result it was the employee not the employer that was fined for this incident.

Whilst you are looking for second hand forklifts in and around buckinghamshire you might like to be aware that a newspaper company settled a claim for £140,000 accepting 85% liability for an accident where an employee was knocked off a ladder by an automated guided electric lift truck. The employee broke his wrist and under advice from his consultant had to retire from his printing job.

While you are looking for second hand forklifts in and around buckinghamshire bear in mind that a worn steer axle on a secondhand lift truck can make it hard to manoeuvre and be quite costly to repair. Look at the wheels and if they are not perpendicular to the ground then this might be the problem.