The loading and unloading of cargo is the most dangerous part of the Haulage Business. The number one priority for every employer should be the safety of their employees and one way you can make sure your workforce is as safe as possible is by giving them the best equipment possible to work with.

In the case of the haulage business, Lifting Slings are one of the most important factors in ensuring workforce safety. Whether you’re talking about manually operated lifting slings or the longer slings used by cranes and forklifts, the fact remains that if one of these slings breaks someone’s going to be in danger. That’s why it’s so vital that you make sure your business is supplied with lifting slings you can reply on to perform their duties flawlessly over a long period of time.

Material technology has improved a huge amount in the last few years, and modern high tenacity polyester lifting slings can now support much greater loads than their older counterparts.

It also greatly speeds up the loading process if you use slings that are colour coded according to their weight limits, as this saves a great deal of time when workers are looking for the right straps to shift their loads.

A great place to go to get new lifting slings and indeed any other type of load restraint equipment is the GTF website (www.gtf.co.uk)