Essential Forklift Safety Action Plan: A Guide for SHEQ Managers 4 Tips for SHEQ Managers A forklift safety action plan should be developed for use by trained and qualified operatives and supervisors. A SHEQ or Health and safety Manager has a responsibility to ensure all personnel have the knowledge and skill-set sufficient to undertake their...Read More

Missing Tachograph Data | What Happens When You Exceed 28 Days? North East Driving School: Missing Tachograph Data Many often wonder why the legal limit for downloading your driver card is set at 28 days. Some believe it’s because the card holds a maximum of 28 days’ worth of data. While there are strong reasons...Read More

Preventing Forklift Truck Fires: 5 Tips for Warehouse Managers Whenever high-powered electrical equipment is operated in dry areas of limited space there is always a serious danger of combustion. Each warehouse or depot will have its own protocols for mitigating the risk of fire which must be strictly observed by all personnel of whatever rank,...Read More

When we consider the risks associated with forklift operation, our minds often gravitate towards potential collisions with workers and pedestrians. However, there’s another very real and often overlooked hazard – forklift overturns. Surprisingly, nearly a fifth of all workplace transport accidents involve vehicles overturning, with a quarter of all accidents in similar environments being related...Read More

Todays post is all about the things you wont learn during your lessons. Mobile phone use For all of you who’ve recently passed, or those of you who are still in the stages of completing your lessons or indeed researching which driving school to go with, you all need to read this article. How many...Read More

ITS GOOD TO GET THINGS WRONG. Do it. Make the mistake. That’s what we’re here for. Far too often we have nervous candidates worry about making mistakes during their lessons. Far too often do we hear them apologise for the exact same mistakes we made when we were in their shoes. It doesn’t matter. What...Read More