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More safety rules forecast
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NEW SAFETY legislation for Marcus Fox, MP for Shipley, Yo at the annual conference of the In Bournemouth this week.
He had been asked by Mr Neil McIntosh, John McIntosh and Son Ltd, Glasgow, why new operators were allowed to operate from private houses often with danger to the community.
A CONSULTATIVE document is to be issued by the Health and Safety Commission outlining ideas for regulations to ensure safe movement of hazardous loads.
A draft of the document was presented to the Commission's management committee last week and it is hoped that the document will be published in about four months' time.
A spokesman for the Commission told CM this week that they would be working with the Department of the Environment on a scheme which would provide for the safe parking of trucks with hazardous loads.
But he emphasised that the Commission would be looking at all aspects of carrying hazardous loads in eluding coding of loads in case of accident.
"The present systems are all very well but what happens if a lorry catches fire or explodes and takes the sign up with it?" asked the spokesman.
The Commission will also be looking for a better way of coding loads that could be applied to the EEC as well as to Britain and it will be involving the Alkaline Inspectorate and the Health and Safety Executive in the search.
When the document is published there will be an opportunity for the industry to comment before concrete proposals are put forward for legislation. transport was forecast by Mr rkshire, in answer to a question British Association of Removers Mr Fox said that few small operators would survive beyond the next two decades because of the implications of Capital Transfer Tax.
There was in operation in this country a taxation system which did not encourage private enterprise, and together with the immense amount of legislation on transport this was inhibiting development and growth.
What was required was for existing legislation to be administered sensibly rather than the imposition of new laws.
He was particularly critical of EEC Regulation 543/69 as it applied to drivers' hours.
This would put the clock back in the UK many years; what was right for one country was not necessarily right for another. No account had been taken of differing conditions, such as road-building.
Mr Fox, who has been appointed as the Parliamentary representative for the removal industry, promised that provided the BAR was realistic in its aims, he would be assiduous in reflecting the views of the industry at Westminster.
For the first time, about 30 overseas delegates were present at the conference. They came from as far afield as South Africa and Japan.