Aldi gets the green light on safety
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N Environmental health bosses have decided that they are satisfied with safety at a warehouse run by cut-price supermarket giant Aldi following a cornp1. tint from a truck driver.
Barnaby Venskunas had claimed he had been told to unload the 20 pallets of baby wipes he was carrying on his own using an electric pallet lift.
The owner-driver had alleged that it had taken staff at Aldi's Chelmsford distribution centre less than a minute to show him how to operate the device and warehouse staff told him his load would be turned away if he refused. Venskunas told CM The warehouse worker asked me if I had ever used an electric pallet lift before, to which I said no. lie then took about 30 seconds to show me the up and down controls and left me to it."
But a spokeswoman for the environmental health department at Chelmsford
Borough Council reports that the Aldi depot has now been visited. She concludes: "I am satisfied with health and safety procedures for deliveries at this site."