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Great Britain’s Traffic Commissioners say lawful rest, secure parking, fatigue monitoring and driver health belong in operators’ everyday safety management.
Berlin’s fire service reports that wooden pallets burned across around 800 square metres in Neukölln. Crews prevented the fire spreading to a neighbouring warehouse.
Drivers visiting ECT Delta and Euromax will need a successfully completed safety test from 5 January 2027. The terminal operator has postponed enforcement again.
HSE says temporary route changes during machinery installation were not properly assessed before a ride-on pallet truck and forklift collided at a Barnsley warehouse.
City Electrical Factors has been fined £4 million after a worker suffered life-changing injuries during forklift loading in Telford. HSE found the operation lacked a risk assessment and lift plan.
The workplace regulator is urging employers to assess exposure, control risks at source and protect workers before hearing damage or hand-arm symptoms develop.
NTRO has made an electric truck fire safety toolkit available for workshop, road and depot teams, with resources covering prevention, warning signs, evacuation and emergency response.
Source National Transport Research Organisation (NTRO)
Original date 8 Oct 2026
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Yaskawa has launched an option card enabling CIP Safety communication over EtherNet/IP for compatible GA700, GA800 (US only), CR700 and GA500 AC drives. Supporting Safe Torque Off and time-controlled Safe Stop 1, it is designed for conveyors, packaging machinery, robotic systems and automated production lines; the company says it can also be retrofitted to existing compatible drives.
Kamps has appointed Elie Ghazal as chief operating officer, tasking him with overseeing its nationwide pallet and reusable-packaging operations. The company says his priorities include safety, manufacturing innovation and aligning operating practices across its network.
The DVSA updated its goods-vehicle load-securing guidance on 24 September. It says loads must be secured to pallets as a single unit, pallets should be checked for damage, and gaps must be restrained or filled to prevent movement; stacked loads must also be stable.
New DfT estimates for 2025 put work-related road collisions at 37% of reported injury collisions, with 583 deaths and 9,804 killed or seriously injured in collisions involving at least one work-travelling driver. The department labels the new estimates “official statistics in development” while its modelling approach is assessed.
DVSA refreshed its published enforcement data covering roadside checks and prohibitions issued to goods vehicles and trailers. The figures indicate where enforcement pressure is falling on hauliers moving palletised freight.
