15.07.2011

Why bother with the pallet

We have all seen heard of people using a forklift and pallet in place of an aerial work platform to reach work at height in a factory.

A Dutch reader sent us an example of a three man work team putting up what looks like a frame for a sign. The location also looks very familiar – a location within sight of a restaurant in the vicinity of Dordrecht.
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Three men, a telehandler and a Death Wish

If it is, the three musketeers are within a few minutes of Europe’s second largest aerial lift rental company and hundreds of aerial lifts, all of which are available for rent. And yet they probably had the telehandler immediately to hand, but clearly did not have a pallet to stand on. So the man who goes up simply stands on the forks. The day looks wet and windy which means the forks would have been slippery.

The telehandler operator has left his post, one assumes to hear and look at where to move the man in the air?

Definitely a Death Wish.

Hopefully the man on the forks managed to complete his job safely, more by luck than judgement, although it does means that he will consider this to be an acceptable method of working at height!