Safety Flash
Loading and securing of cargo
Loading and securing of cargo
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 10/13
- Dropped ObjectsHazardous SubstancesManual Handling
- Hazardous substances
- Manual handlingVehicles and driving
- Positive retention and reliable securing
Summary
This safety flash highlights two occasions involving unsecured cargo in containers and vehicles, resulting in unnecessary manual handling. It offers suggestions on balanced loading, protective packing, lashing and wedging, segregation of incompatible materials, secure doors and secondary retention, and planning loads to facilitate unloading.
Classifications: Hazardous substances; hazardous chemicals; chemical exposure.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Positive retention and reliable securing.
Summary
A member has highlighted two recent occasions in which containers and vehicles were inappropriately loaded and transported with their contents unsecured, which resulted in unnecessary manual handling of cargo.
IMCA SF 10/13. Themes: dropped objects, hazardous substances, manual handling.