Things you want to say to employees but can't because you're professional...

Those driving issues remind me of the period during which I was group HRM for a distribution business (Premier Direct Plc). We had the highest density of FLT operations (most trucks operating in a given area) on Tyneside, after Nissan! We were constantly getting minor "shunts" of trucks damaging racking, and the drivers always had some excuse about the difficulties of operating and the poor loading of pallets unbalancing the truck... or whatever; none of which could be easily countered by managers who had no experience of driving one!

....So since I was also Safety Officer (my "second string" with a NEBOSH Qualification to prove it) ....and also being a mean and sneaky Peter (as you might all already know), I went off and surreptitiously did an FLT course....

Next driver who gave a hearing the sad tale of how the racking jumped out and assaulted his truck was asked to follow me....

Jumping on a free FLT I drove to the racking, ran the forks up to the top level (four units high) lifted out a fully laden pallet, dropped it to 9" off ground level, spun the truck and load on its axis and gently placed the pallet a close (but safe) distance from his toes.

Then asked: "So at what point did your truck wobble and strike the upright?"

The look on his face was priceless..... and our silly excuses for minor damage stopped practically overnight.

(It also did my "street cred" with the warehouse team no harm at all)!

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Samantha said:

I love that there's a safe place for us to rant like this :) makes you realise you're not alone

This thread also has a ridiculous number of views. All Robey's fault.