The Clark spare parts warehouse in Louisville received the “Governor’s Safety & Health Award” of the state of Kentucky. Labour secretary J. R. Gray presented the award to management and staff at the beginning of April 2010. Representatives of the professional association and the company Powell Walton Milward were present. Background: The distribution centre for original Clark spare parts has not witnessed any accident for over seven years.

Safety first – day by day

2709 accident-free working days are deemed to be a milestone in the endeavours for greater safety at the workplace and are the result of a close cooperation between management and staff. Dennis Lawrence, President and CEO of the CLARK Material Handling Company headquartered in Lexington/Kentucky: "We feel honoured. We are proud of the staff in this distribution centre: They have established an atmosphere of safety at their workplace on a day by day basis. We believe we have created one of the safest workplace environments in the whole of Kentucky, in the best distribution centre for forklifts worldwide."

15,000 m² operating area

Since 2001, the CLARK Material Handling Company has been operating the 15,000 m² goods distribution centre for spare parts in Louisville. The state-of-the-art distribution centre is regarded as a spectral point of departure for spare parts making their way to the 250 dealers of the North American dealer network and which are used in one of the 250,000 Clark forklift trucks in North America.

Singled out

The “Governor’s Safety & Health Award” is not the first award that Clark has been able to receive in the USA in the recent past. Clark has been able to come right at the top in a survey conducted among 1300 logistics experts in the subject of price-performance. The comprehensive market research project of MMH – an institution under the US American print media in the area of logistics – enquired about a number of product and brand attributes in six individual categories for this.