A wealth of safety innovation in one place
LONDON : The well-being of the workforce and the security of cargo and equipment are at the forefront of cargo handling operations throughout the world. This is reassuring, however more can always be done to improve safety conditions. TT Club, together with ICHCA are therefore maintaining their efforts to encourage and disseminate the good news about successful innovation wherever possible.
“The publication of this Digest, detailing all twenty-seven innovations put forward for the award this year endeavours to do just that,” says Mike Yarwood, TT’s Managing Director, Loss Prevention. “It demonstrates the strength and quality of the innovations and reflects the drive by organisations throughout the industry to improve safety standards. It is relatively easy, given the spotlight afforded the winners of the award, to appreciate their successes in meeting current safety challenges. However, the high calibre and sheer volume of safety products, processes and concepts offered was so impressive that they all deserve recognition. The Digest fulfils that requirement.”
Running to well over a hundred pages the publication allows a full opportunity for those in the industry seeking specific safety solutions to monitor the latest technology available. There are four broad categories of innovation included, from the advantages of using data collection to provide insight into safety improvements, to learning technology; and from practical products to make handling operations safer, to those segregating people from machines.
In recommending the Digest to a broad industry audience and encouraging other innovators not yet engaged in the safety award programme Richard Steele, CEO of ICHCA says, “In partnership with TT, ICHCA aims to provide a tool kit that helps promote these ground breaking ideas not just via inclusion in this Digest but by encouraging everyone to participate in discussion forums, conferences and exhibitions and further papers on safety issues that we organise. Through these efforts, we hope that industry and innovators will have increased opportunity to work together to continuously raise standards and embed new ways of thinking in safety practices of the future.”
The Safety Digest is available to download HERE