ECG — 2023-05-09
News from ECG
On 2023 May 5 ECG held a webinar to present the main findings of the Health & Safety Working Group (H&S WG) incident reporting activity for 2021/22.
The report titled ‘Making the industry safer - Reducing accidents in FVL: 2021/22 incidents & analysis’ aims to promote industry-wide knowledge about the most common incidents happening during loading/unloading operations on car transporters and give key sector recommendations on how to improve drivers’ safety.
Andreea Serbu, ECG’s Senior Manager External Affairs, welcomed all attendees and presented the main activities of the H&S WG and its sub-groups (SG). Philippe Nelain, Global Risk Manager at Renault Groupe, leader of the sub-group on incident reporting, followed with an introduction to the incident reporting website and activities of the sub-group. The online Incident reporting website was developed in 2018 to collect severe incidents and near misses happening in finished vehicle logistics (FVL) during loading and unloading operations. Thanks to the support of companies that are actively uploading incidents, ECG has published yearly reports for 2019 and 2020.
Highlights of 2021/22 report
The report for 2021/22 includes an overview and breakdown of high-risk incidents such as slips & trips, roll offs, falls from height and accidents happening during transport and delivery at retailers, as well as key recommendations for the industry. Key trends observed in 2019 and 2020 reports were also remarked in the 2021/22 analysis: most incidents caused slips and trips and injuries were less than serious. In the report, ECG highlights once more the importance of drivers’ training and adoption of the ECG Guidelines – Safe loading process: a booklet illustrating step-by-step how to safely load and unload vehicles on a car transporter. An in-depth analysis is provided in the report.
All Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OMEs) should continue to report on incidents. Only by sharing, players in this sector can learn together as an industry and improve drivers’ safety.
The incident reporting website can be accessed here. We invite all truck operators to report on their 2023 incidents. All data is treated strictly confidential and only ECG has access to it.
For any other questions you may have, please do not hesitate to contact Jovana Vancevska.