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Warehouse fall 02.11.2005

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Warehouse fall

A serious injury to a young warehouse employee highlighted a number of important safety issues for employers in the warehousing and commercial storage sectors, including supervision of inexperienced workers. A 22-year-old employee received a crushed vertebra and fractured pelvis after he fell 3.5 metres from a temporary platform erected between two racking units in a warehouse. According to investigators, a competent supervisor would have recognised that working at such a height on unsecured boards was unsafe, and should not have been attempted.

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BG Institute of Work and Health (BGAG)
“Safe Start” is the culmination of all the effort the European Agency has made in mainstreaming OSH into education since 2001. ENETOSH expresses its clear commitment to EW 2006. We are promoting “Safe Start” on our website, included the Safe Start logo in our leaflet and are calling on our partners to sign the charter. In addition we dedicated our yearly event, Training & Innovation on 7-8 July, to the Week and we will publish a trainer manual Work and Health in October 2006.

Ulrike Bollmann, BGAG - European Network Education and Training in OSH (ENETOSH)