Avoid complacency during breaks

NTI provides some practical tips for safeguarding your equipment and site during seasonal downtimes.

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If it sounds familiar, it's because it is - the holiday season continues to be a peak time for theft and damage to mobile plant and equipment, and work sites.

But the industry experts at NTI have practical steps to avoid costly incidents during the holiday period.

At face value, it seems like common sense: inadequately secured work sites are at a much higher risk of theft and malicious damage. In fact, the Australian Institute of Criminology reports a significant increase (over 30 per cent) in these types of criminal offences during the December/ January period.

And it's not just equipment that needs consideration.

NTI's National Product Manager - Mobile Plant, David Kidd, says unsecured sites also pose a risk to members of the public, including falls from partially built structures and scaffolding, live electrical power, open excavations, or building waste and rubble.