paul b:
my point was that at the moment theres a vast amount of steel loads that you can’t load from the head board back, now corus has become very hse recently but their recomended methods for such loads dosn’t involve filling the void or any sort of restraint to stop the load moving forward other than a tensioned strap or chain across the load, so really in complete contradiction to this video.
Exactly, another executive agency making safety videos while the manufacturers and steel importers are singing from different hymn sheets. There is only one reason a load comes off a lorry, it wasn’t fastened onto the lorry properly, and the loaders and drivers experience is the best safety measure, not some costly video editing and ham acting. 
He had a “Long Vehicle” board on the trailer , haven’t seen one of those in ages
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If he wasn’t wearing that hat and Hi-viz coat…Would be a different story! 
mickyblue:
tommy t:
Although it was only a re enactment to show the serious consequences that can occur if the load is not secure, in like for like real situation i would hope that someone would of thought to uncouple the trl cab and tow or move the cab forwards enough to free him,to save a life ?
not many people will know how to when they attend the scene. When Police or Ambo attended scene like that ( I have been first at a fatal ) we are trained not to move anything as it may make things worse ( but still give first aid ), if you catch my drift.
What i meant was that when the paramedic told the fire man that they need to get him out or he is a gonna, at that point having already assessed the load could not be moved quick enough that someone would have the common sense to uncouple the trailer and move the cab forwards enough in such a do or die situation
I’ve seen two serious accidents with steel moving forward and going thru’ the cab.
One driver was killed instantly, the tractor unit cab was ripped off and was hanging off the steel ‘H’ section girders 3 or 4 metres from the chassis.
The other driver was carrying steel reinforcing (40 ft bar ),it moved under braking going straight through the cab (ERF,fibreglass!!) and windscreen missing the driver by millimeters,somebody was looking after him that day !.
Remember when loading that any headboard,chains ,straps,rope securing the load has to withstand 100% of the weight of the load moving forward under braking, not just to stop it falling off the sides.
So who put the handbrake on then? 
mick palmer:
I’ve seen two serious accidents with steel moving forward and going thru’ the cab.
One driver was killed instantly, the tractor unit cab was ripped off and was hanging off the steel ‘H’ section girders 3 or 4 metres from the chassis.
The other driver was carrying steel reinforcing (40 ft bar ),it moved under braking going straight through the cab (ERF,fibreglass!!) and windscreen missing the driver by millimeters,somebody was looking after him that day !.
Remember when loading that any headboard,chains ,straps,rope securing the load has to withstand 100% of the weight of the load moving forward under braking, not just to stop it falling off the sides.
I have seen one, in 1969, I was eleven and 19 tons of steel pipes slid forward, knocking off the headboard on a tandem Boden flatbed, it carried on and hit the back of a Volvo F86 cab and eventually knocked the cab off. The badly injured driver was laid across the dash, the broken windscreen was on the tarmac, right outside the main post office on Alfred Gelder Street. Funny how you remember these things, it is still fresh in my mind forty one years later.