Reduce Risks
Our priority: health and safety
Reduce Risks raise your awareness of safe machine operation. It also aims to guide you in your choice of equipment & servicess for different working environments for better consideration of health and safety.
Because our equipment, by its very nature, provides security, it is our mission to transform usage in certain territories to improve working conditions. Moreover, ensuring the optimum safety of all of our users involves a commitment at every level: from our component and attachment qualification tests to delivery of a global prevention campaign.
Key Risk Figures
An accident involving a piece of handling equipment is always linked to several factors: the equipment chosen not being suitable for the environment, poor knowledge and misuse of the equipment.
+550: From its entry into service, a telehandler will be leased more than 550 times.
+250: From its entry into service, a platform will be leased more than 250 times.
- 80 % of handling truck accidents involve a pedestrian
- 90 % of lift trucks will be involved in an accident during their lifetime
- 25 % lift trucks account for 25% of workplace injuries
- 70 % of accidents could be avoided with appropriate training and safety measures
Prevention campaign
On our markets: more than 500,000 people use our machines every day for durations ranging from 500 to 3,000 hours a year.The handling equipment provides a way to improve working conditions as long as it is used properly.
Use our prevention posters to ensure safer use of your equipment.
OUR MACHINE & ATTACHMENT PROCESS
With five engineering offices and an in-house designer, we develop solutions to meet specific needs, market by market, customer by customer.We use our know-how to simplify, optimise and make our users' jobs safer.This guarantee of a safe handling solution is based on the following process.
Listening to customers
Customer feedback and sharing of their practical needs, for example for particularly high-risk applications: mining, defence, the environment, aerospace, etc.
Research and Design
The development teams represent 7% of the Group's workforce. Specific developments are made to adapt the technologies and equipment to each range of machines, providing additional security for users: selection of materials for better consideration of safety, falling load protection, ergonomics, etc.
Prototypes and Tests
Development of prototypes and starting of tests (stability, acoustics, vibration, visibility):
Vibration of hands, seat, arm
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
Field of vision
Seat belt anchor point
FOPS-ROPS cab etc..
Reliability Tests
Connecting an unsuitable attachment is likely to endanger the user and third parties.The priority of our Attachment Competence Centre is the safety of the machine-attachment pairing.This unique validation procedure provides maximum security for the machine and the operator.The machines undergo endurance testing and bench testing.
Collaborative Tests
Our test days or warm-ups enable the machines to be tested by customers and the Research & Development department then analyses and processes their feedback
Third-party Homologation and Verification
We attach the utmost importance to compliance with current regulations (noise, visibility, steering, braking).All of the machines designed to lift personnel are approved by a notified body.
Industrialisation & Delivery
All of the machines that leave the Group's factories undergo an operational test in which all of their features are tested.
Training and Continuous Improvement
The Group provides training for dealers, distribution network technicians and customers who want it, with the aim of ensuring a consistent service and maintenance quality worldwide.
Discover in this video how our attachments are designed, tested and homologated !