National Forklift Safety Day returns for 2025 with a new campaign aimed at improving safety within the material handling sector – further details to follow. Please visit this page soon for updates.
The 2024 campaign explored what actions should be taken before, during and after a forklift incident. Supported by the slogan ‘Prevent – Manage – Learn’, the campaign ran between June and December and focused on the seven stages of the forklift incident cycle, with each stage representing a specific strategy for ensuring the safe use of material handling equipment.
Stretching NFSD 2024 over a seven-month period helped us to strengthen our commitment to make every day National Forklift Safety Day. In specific dates across the seven months fresh information and engaging content was released to help the industry better understand the incident cycle.
Due to the extended length of the campaign, the prolonged release of crucial information helped enhance workplace safety and minimise the impact of any relevant incident.
The first stage of the forklift incident cycle, Prepare, explores the actions that should be taken to reduce the chance of an incident becoming an accident.
Are you keen to learn about how to respond when an incident happens? Respond, the next stage of the incident cycle, examines what to do in the immediate aftermath of a forklift accident.
When an incident occurs, it is vital to adopt effective investigation methods to identify the cause of the accident. The third phase of this year’s NFSD campaign, Investigate, will provide essential tips for conducting thorough forklift accident investigations.
The Report instalment of NFSD 2024 focuses on statutory obligations for reporting an incident. For this stage of the cycle, we will be discussing RIDDOR and LOLER reporting and what follow-up actions can be expected.
Restart, the fifth stage of the incident cycle, examines the actions needed to safely recommence production. The media we release on the 12th of October will address a selection of vital post-incident topics, including the importance of training and thorough examination.
Learning from errors that contributed to forklift incidents is a key step for enhancing workplace safety. Join us on Sunday the 10th of November as we delve into the Learn stage of the incident cycle. Our engaging resources help companies and professionals to learn from mistakes and pinpoint operational areas that require improvement.
The final stage of the incident cycle, Prevent, centres on the most effective prevention strategies people should implement to ensure that forklift incidents do not occur. This topic covers near miss and good catch reporting, as well as how to spot the warning signs of imminent danger.
“With the theme ‘Prevent – Manage – Learn’, this year’s National Forklift Safety Day will adopt a different format from previous campaigns. Rather than taking place on a single day, National Forklift Safety Day 2024 will be extended over different days across a seven-month period, as we aim to Make Every Day National Forklift Safety Day.”
David Goss
Technical Director, UKMHA