Safer offloading
Pre-slung trusses keep people off the back of the lorry.
About
Health & Safety
At DTE, we are fully committed to ensuring the health and safety of all our stakeholders.
02 / DETAIL
At DTE, we are fully committed to ensuring the health and safety of all our stakeholders.
Our customers and insurers often tell us that the company’s internal systems are among the best in the industry, as we have developed leading initiatives to make employees, customers, site workers and haulage drivers safe.
As accidents at work in the construction industry continue to make for alarming reading, we have been focused on improving the safety of the industry's biggest risk areas, including working at height and unloading roof trusses.
We have put a number of significant safety measures in place to prevent the risks associated with unloading trusses. We can supply trusses pre-slung, which means no-one gets on to the lorry to unload. The slings are placed in the correct position in the factory, reducing risks of slingers putting them in the wrong position, and once they are on the roof the slings are cut off.
03 / SAFETY LEADERSHIP
Safer in the factory and on site
Health and safety shapes how we manufacture, load and deliver. Much of what is now standard practice across the industry started as an initiative to protect the people handling our products.
Working at height
Panelised gables reduce the time spent building at roof level.
Industry guidance
Active in TRA safety, technical and management committees.
Safe handling in the production hall
04 / IN PRACTICE
How safety shows up in your job
Safety measures are built into the product and the delivery, not bolted on at the end.
Delivery systems
Pictorial driver warnings and planned offload methods.
Banded loads
Products banded and labelled for controlled, predictable lifts.
Site guidance
TRA handling, storage and installation guidance supplied.
Trained teams
Ongoing training across manufacturing and transport.
05 / QUESTIONS
Common questions
Safety first
Plan a safer delivery
Talk to your branch about pre-slung loads, offload methods and handling guidance for your site.