New Quick Hitch Guidance

The Strategic Forum Plant Safety Group met on 16th November 2009 and has now issued a new guidance on safe use of excavator quick hitches.

Fatalities, serious injuries and other incidents involving the unsafe use of quick hitches have continued despite guidance issued earlier in 2009.

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, an operator's Safety Notice can be downloaded by clicking here.

18th Nov 2009

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