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charles007
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:03 am 
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Is there any Case law on health and saftey and wheelchares and Taxis Please.

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charles007 wrote:
Is there any Case law on Elf'nSafe tea and wheelchares and Taxis Please.


for passengers or drivers?

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When I was delivering stock to shops the company H&S assessor would visit each shop to see if it was safe for drivers to deliver using a class2 truck with a tail lift and roll cages, if not they sent me with a van and the stuff on pallets and i had to handball it all in...for a price of course

no-one bothered about me though

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charles007
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wannabeeahack wrote:
charles007 wrote:
Is there any Case law on Elf'nSafe tea and wheelchares and Taxis Please.


for passengers or drivers?


Both and thank you for the spelling lession

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mancityfan
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The only court case that draws a parallel is concerning the Birmingham black
cab that was transporting a teenaged girl in her wheelchair, along with her
father as carer. The wheelchair was not anchored correctly, the cab driver
had to brake severely, the girl had brittle bone disease and the braking
action broke her neck and she died. The coroner said that the driver was
exonerated, because it was the father who had loaded his daughter in that
manner/position in the taxi, and it was the father who had supervised her
seat belt and chair anchorage, or lack of it.
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mancityfan
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Perhaps you should look at pushchairs to? Seems to me this is far more dangerous,at least wheelchairs are supposed to be clamped in.
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http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/hea-db(ni)2001-3.pdf

http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/transporting ... r_user.pdf

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I really like this one.

http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/wheelchair.pdf

The lads from Edinburgh arranged this, and it has some really helpful advice in respect of angles to size of punter, and whether it's safe for the driver to undertake a job or not.

Great help for drivers who genuinely refuse to load big punters from the road.

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charles007
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captain cab wrote:
http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/hea-db(ni)2001-3.pdf

http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/transporting ... r_user.pdf


Thank you cc

and that you all

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charles007 wrote:
Is there any Case law on health and saftey and wheelchares and Taxis Please.



Sounds like some drivers are after getting out of doing wheelchair work.
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wannabeeahack
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Nidge2 wrote:
charles007 wrote:
Is there any Case law on health and saftey and wheelchares and Taxis Please.



Sounds like some drivers are after getting out of doing wheelchair work.


cant say I blame them, mind you theyve had to invest £20,000 and need to repay the loan...

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