SFfC Plant Safety Group provide quick hitch safety guidance
Following the failure of a previous guidance to stem the tide of fatalities, accidents and injuries, the Strategic Forum Plant Safety Group met earlier this week and has now issued guidance on safe use of excavator quick hitches.
The Safety Notice clarifies other issues concerning safe use of quick hitches, recognising that employers have their own safe systems of work for the use of quick hitches. It is recommended that all employers use the Safety Notice as a check list to review their own procedures.
A full Best Practice Guidance will be published in February 2010 but, in the meantime, the Forum has issued an interim guidance for operator that can be viewed here.
Our thanks to PP Construction for the heads-up on this.
