Safely Secure Loads

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SAFELY SECURE LOADS A REMINDER For drivers
their supervisors October 2002
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Did you learn from this fatality?
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No you did not !! There are still badly secured
loads traveling on our roads today !!! See the
next few slides .
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This is a 45 ton bulldozer that fell off a low
bed trailer because...
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• Only two chains were usednot enough for a 45
  ton dozer!
• Steel tracks on steel low-bed low friction
  factor!
• Poor supervisionwrongly approved the loading
  (staff not properly trained)
• Driver- too fast round a sharp bend - braked
  harshly

Should have used - 4 chains- wood deck
low-bed Driver should have- travelled at speed
safe for load and road conditions
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ANOTHER EXAMPLE
Rock-breaker loose on the deck
Single chain

• a 28 ton backhoe retained with just ONE chain
• the rock-breaker is totally unrestrained
• Both would fall off in sharp or sudden turn
  and could easily kill
  someone......

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Can you believe this??

• Wrong
• high bed trailer
• headboard split broken no protection to driver
  (would be crushed if load moved forward)
• chains slack and wrongly positioned

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• Very slack chains
• No chocks
• Incorrect chain angles

• Trailer bed is too narrow
• Tyres overhang trailer an unstable load !

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It is not only large loads that are not being
secured correctly !! It also applies to small
items.
This truck is loaded with oil drums 2 drums
stand loose! These can easily fall over, roll
around, get damaged and leak.
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Here is a tall wooden crate restrained by a web
lashing which had broken and was knotted in two
places
Do not use lashings with knots they are NOT
strong. Throw them away! Destroy them! Do NOT use
them!
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• Another totally unsecured load
• six pallets of flexible water pipe with no
  lashings or any other load restraint used
• a length of rope had been placed across the top
  of the pallets, probably for decoration!
• web lashing belts should have been used
• they were lucky this load did not fall off

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• NOTE to Managers/Supervisors
• This presentation is a REMINDER of the importance
  of load safety and good load securing. Prevent
  further accidents due to poor load securing.
  Follow the guidelines on the PDO-DtS
  webhttp//www.pdo.co.om/hseforcontractors/dts/l
  oads.htmUser Name pdohse01 Password
  contractor01
• A detailed specification (SP-2001) is being
  written and will be issued by end 2002.
• In the meantime follow the British Department of
  Transport Load Securing Code of Practice which
  is available on the same website.
• Another excellent Australian load securing guide
  with more pictures and diagrams is also available
  on the same website.
• For further information CSM/15 tel 67-7956

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Load Securing Guidelines Know them! Follow them!