Plant Equipment Feature Library
Operations Engineer's library catalogues editorial features going back five years.
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01/04/2007
Moving engineers
Operations, plant and transport engineers with an eye to the future would do well to get to the Commercial Vehicle Show (CV 2007) at the NEC Birmingham, 24-26 April. The transport industry is adopting newer technologies and that has ...
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01/12/2006
New trains of thought on lifting
Every so often lifting equipment fails, generating the kind of headlines that no one wants to see. These unfortunate incidents occur despite safety checks carried out by the manufacturer and further regular checks undertaken by the end ...
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01/06/2006
You can be lifted...
A new breed of powered access equipment is being developed to help end users achieve greater time savings and working efficiencies, particularly where working conditions are difficult and inhospitable, while also delivering valuable gains ...
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01/06/2006
Raising the ante on safety
While lifts and lifting operations have generally become much safer certainly than when passenger lifts first made their appearance during the 19th Century handling and lifting are still the largest source of industrial accidents in the ...
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06/06/2005
Lifting & handling - Tell tail signs
'One of the most highly-regulated pieces of ancillary equipment currently available for fitment to a vehicle, with specific responsibilities placed on the equipment manufacturer, installer, specifier and/or operator.' These words appear in ...
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01/10/2004
Lifiting and Handling - The LOLER lowdown
Wherever there is lifting equipment there will be safety issues. In December 1998 the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) came into force to help reduce the risk and occurrence of accidents through the continuing ...
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