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Document ID (ISN)103237
CIS number 04-225
Year 2004
Convention or series no. HSE Booklet INDG396
Author(s)
Health and Safety Executive
Title Guidance for hauliers and others who transport paper and paper products
Bibliographic information HSE Books, P.O. Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA, United Kingdom, Apr. 2004. 16p. Illus. 12 ref.
Internet access http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg396.pdf [in English]
Abstract This booklet provides practical advice to persons involved in transporting paper or paper products. It seeks to help ensure a safe workplace as well as to minimize the specific risk of on-road vehicle instability that can result in overturning. Contents: materials handling; loading and unloading; steel strapping for vertical reels; strapping of horizontal reels; strapping of bales and waste pulp; palletized and mixed loads; vehicle stability; drivers.
Descriptors (primary) United Kingdom; bale handling; paper and paper products industry; loading and unloading; road transport; reeled materials handling
Descriptors (secondary) securing of loads; drivers; trucks; safety guides; overturning; safe working methods; strapping
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Country / State or ProvinceUnited Kingdom
Subject(s) Transport and communications
Broad subject area(s) Mechanical hazards, transport
Browse category(ies) Road transportation
Paper and paper products industry