• Plan ahead with plenty of time, to properly asses each element of the job at hand.
• Use the correct lifting and handling equipment, which has been safety checked and approved.
• Double check the equipment, and run through safety measures before going ahead with the work.
• Clearly communicate health and safety procedures throughout the work force, for a unified approach to safety.
• If incidents do occur, the situation should be properly scrutinised in order to ensure that a repeat in never allowed to occur.

• Plan ahead with plenty of time, to properly asses each element of the job at hand.
• Use the correct lifting and handling equipment, which has been safety checked and approved.
• Double check the equipment, and run through safety measures before going ahead with the work.
• Clearly communicate health and safety procedures throughout the work force, for a unified approach to safety.
• If incidents do occur, the situation should be properly scrutinised in order to ensure that a repeat in never allowed to occur.

"Had the company taken basic steps, such as providing suitable training so that those undertaking the lift were in a more informed position to assess and then adequately manage the risks, this incident would have been avoided."

1. Employee training. Workers who are required to undertake tasks such as this one should be fully trained to identify risks and take any necessary safety precautions in order to ensure the safe completion of the job at hand.
   
   
2. Risk assessment. Trained workers should know how to carry out a full risk assessment ahead of commencing a lifting/handling job. In an ideal version of this scenario, someone would have completed a risk assessment and spotted the possibility that the structure might twist towards the forklift.
   
   
3. Use of the correct equipment and safety measures. Preventing accidents means taking the right precautions and select the right tools/equipment for the job. In this case, it seems likely that a forklift was entirely the wrong solution for the task at hand, and a different piece of lifting equipment should have been utilised instead.

"Had the company taken basic steps, such as providing suitable training so that those undertaking the lift were in a more informed position to assess and then adequately manage the risks, this incident would have been avoided."

1. Employee training. Workers who are required to undertake tasks such as this one should be fully trained to identify risks and take any necessary safety precautions in order to ensure the safe completion of the job at hand.
   
   
2. Risk assessment. Trained workers should know how to carry out a full risk assessment ahead of commencing a lifting/handling job. In an ideal version of this scenario, someone would have completed a risk assessment and spotted the possibility that the structure might twist towards the forklift.
   
   
3. Use of the correct equipment and safety measures. Preventing accidents means taking the right precautions and select the right tools/equipment for the job. In this case, it seems likely that a forklift was entirely the wrong solution for the task at hand, and a different piece of lifting equipment should have been utilised instead.