Eight Propane Forklift Safety Considerations Crews Need to Know
Material handling equipment, like forklifts, are vital to a port’s day-to-day operations. Forklifts enable employees to keep containers and other heavy materials on the move during their shift. But due to the nature of the equipment, forklifts introduce some workplace hazards that crews need to be aware of — and know how to avoid.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducted a study analyzing forklift-related accidents, injuries, and fatalities and discovered the top six causes to be operator inattention, lack of training, unstable loads, forklift overturns, operators
Kito Americas Reorganizes Its Leadership Team
Group, Kito Canada, Inc. and Kito Do Brasil and is the largest division within the Kito Group companies. They manufacturer and supply electric chain and wire rope hoists, air powered hoists, lever hoists, manual hand chain hoists, trolleys, cranes, crane components, below-the-hook devices, material handling equipment, cargo control, hardware chain and accessories, marine and traction products
GAC, Hemas team on Sri Lanka Logistics Facility
who will survey containers entering the depot, benchmarking against global standards. The distribution centre will consist of 22,000 pallet positions with both ambient and temperature-controlled facilities. Global best practices in layout design, dock efficiency, pallet racking and material handling equipment will be incorporated to enable agile and scalable logistics solutions. The entire distribution centre’s operation will run on an integrated IT platform that encompasses warehouse management, distribution management and yard management capabilities with barcode and RFID enabled infrastruct
MHI Welcomrd New Employees
at becoming a world leader in the field of thermal power generation systems. He also related how last year MHI joined forces with Siemens of Germany in the metals machinery business with the establishment of Primetals Technologies. That move, together with plans to integrate businesses in material handling equipment - especially forklift trucks – engines and turbochargers, is aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of the MHI Group as a whole. Mr. Miyanaga further informed the new employees how MHI, in conjunction with its 130th anniversary, today is undertaking a broad palette of activities
MFET Announces Changes in Executive-level Personnel
Forklift & Engine Turbocharger Holdings, Ltd. (MFET) has announced the following executive-level personnel changes effective April 1, 2016. Position, Name, Duties President and CEO Atsushi Maekawa Executive Vice President, Yuichi Makimura, Forklift truck (material handling equipment) business Executive Vice President, (part-time) Yoshiyuki Hanasawa, Engines & Turbochargers (Executive officer of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Vice President of Energy & Environment domain) Director (part-time,) Hideaki Ninomiya, (President & CEO of Mitsubishi
Miranda Appointed to Head STAUFF Brazil
. Miranda previously served as Commercial Manager for STAUFF Brazil, where he developed a working knowledge of the company. Miranda joined STAUFF with 30 years of experience in the development and implementation of Marketing, Sales and Production strategies for materials construction and material handling equipment in Brazil and other countries in Latin America. This includes 13 years as sales director for the NACCO Group (Hyster and Yale). Miranda is a Mechanical Engineer (IEEP-SP), and has an International Executive MBA from the Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP). As managing director, Miranda&rsquo
