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Ensuring Safety when Maintaining Rail Equipment

Nobody likes it when there are line repairs taking place, but unfortunately, it has to happen in order to keep the trains running during busy times. In order to keep downtime to a minimum, though, rail companies tend to schedule them during holidays or a quiet periods. Certainly, the aim is to avoid rush hour…

Do the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) Apply to Me?

Many people are of the opinion that many regulations to do with their working environment don’t apply to them if they are self-employed or a contractor working independently of their hiring company. Likewise, many companies feel that the contractor carries the burden if they are using their own equipment on site. However, if you employ…

Safety When Maintaining on Hydraulic Equipment

Wherever you have hydraulic equipment, you have the need for regular and thorough maintenance. It’s essential that all hydraulic equipment is serviced and checked on a regular basis because of the potential dangers of failure. In many cases, hydraulic jacks and cylinders are put under an incredible amount of strain on a regular basis. They’re…

Why You’re Probably Spending Too Much on Hydraulic Maintenance

Hydraulics can be dangerous; we know that it’s why a big proportion of our site is dedicated to health and safety matters. We value the safety of our clients and staff above all else. However, being safe and being paranoid about safety are very different things, and while it’s important to ensure your hydraulic equipment…

Do Worlifts Provide an Hydraulic Equipment Repair Service?

  Yes! Worlifts is there whenever you need us and we can get your hydraulic equipment up and running in no time, whether it’s in need of a service, or has broken down. All you have to do is give us a call and we can arrange for one of our fully equipped vans to…

Steam train firm rapped after safety equipment ‘turned off’ in Doncaster

“A Train operator was rapped by Government officials for turning off safety equipment on one of its steam trains near Doncaster, it has emerged. The Office of Rail and Road temporarily prohibited West Coast Railway Company Limited from operating steam trains on the mainline rail network last month because of the move, it has revealed”…

Do You Even Liftex?!

With over 100 exhibitors and over 1500 visitors, Liftex 2015 was the biggest exhibition for lifting professionals in the UK. This year it was double the size and held in the fantastic Liverpool Exhibition Centre, it brought together some of the best companies in the industry under one roof. Worlifts were there to meet and…

Essential Maintenance of your Hydraulic Equipment

Hydraulic Equipment has to put up with a lot. They’re often used to do the very heavy lifting in any engineering task, such as lifting trains on to tracks or splitting troublesome nuts. When used in such difficult, grimy and sometimes dangerous situations, it’s absolutely essential that the equipment is maintained to high standards. Even…

Pneumatic Hand Tools and Hand-Arm Vibration (HAVS) Problems

Here at Worlifts we’re committed to the health and safety cause. It’s an essential part of every organisation’s procedures to include advice and help for people operating machinery. Some safety precautions are obvious, such as helmets and safety harnesses, but there are many other areas that need to be considered. For example, Hand Arm Vibration…

How do fall arrest systems work?

For those in the construction or roofing trades who work at a substantial height, the threat of injury or death due to a fall is very real. Because of this, fall arrest systems were developed to stop at-risk workers in mid-fall, securing them before they hit the ground. A fall arrest system is generally made…

Why the need for height safety equipment?

It may seem obvious, but in some industries and on some construction sites, you can be forgiven for thinking that health and safety is something that applies to other people. On the contrary, having an effective policy for working at height is essential in any organisation, and so is the equipment necessary to make sure…