Check quality
July 1st 2008 Purchasers, specifiers and users
of materials handling and loading
bay equipment are being urged to
check that products they consider
buying or using are CE marked
and meet the appropriate EU
quality and safety standards.
The warning comes from John
Meale, a Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Logistics & Transport,
former president of the British
Materials Handing Federation and
a board member of the Federation
Europeenne de la Manutention,
the European Federation of
Materials Handling.
Meale, MD of Thorworld
Industries, says "An increasing
quantity of materials handling
equipment that does not carry the
official CE mark is coming into the
country, particularly from Eastern
Europe and Asia".
He comments that using inferior
materials handling and loading bay
equipment could jeopardise the
health and safety of employees.
However, he stresses he is not
condemning all imports, just those
that do not meet the appropriate
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