Toyota Material Handling has been selected as an official campaign partner for the Healthy Workplaces Campaign sponsored by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). Together, Toyota Material Handling and EU-OSHA will be promoting the importance of maintenance and safe maintenance practices across Europe.
EU-OSHA research has shown that in some European countries as many as 20% of all workplace accidents are connected with maintenance, with more than half of all accidents being maintenance-related in certain sectors.
Toyota Material Handling supports this campaign because safety is very important to its customers and is a cornerstone of the company's culture.
The EU-OSHA campaign on safe maintenance aims to raise awareness of the importance of maintenance in workplaces and of the risks if maintenance is not carried out properly.
EU-OSHA's goal is to lower the number of work-related accidents by 25% between 2007 and 2012. As one of 30 official European partners for the 2010-2011 campaign - and the only partner from the materials handling industry - Toyota Material Handling will build on existing safety programmes to enhance awareness and use of safe maintenance practices among its own employees. In addition, the company aims to work with business partners and other interested parties to promote safe maintenance.
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