Whilst you are looking for hyster gas forklifts in and around scotland you might like to be aware that an employer was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay over £800 in costs when a HSE inspector noticed an employee being lifted eight feet into the air on a lift truck to fit a company sign to their own premises. Although no one was injured on the occasion, this incident had all the hallmarks of an accident waiting to happen. Accidents involving fork lift trucks account for a large proportion of accidents in the workplace and it is an employer’s responsibility to ensure that drivers are properly trained and use the equipment properly.

When you are looking into hyster gas forklifts in and around scotland you might like to be aware that the proprietor of a waste firm was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £6,000 following an incident when one of his employees died after the lift truck he was driving fell from a weighbridge and toppled on top of him causing fatal head injuries. It was found that the lift truck had no seatbelt and no railings had been provided.

While you are trying to find hyster gas forklifts in and around scotland bear in mind that a used electric lift truck might have a battery with a bad cell. This does not necessarily mean that the battery needs to be replaced as it is sometimes possible to just replace a cell, which is a lot cheaper than fitting a new battery.