This booklet has been prepared, following research, investigation and extensive tests, to publicise what have been proven to be the correct and safest methods of stacking and packeting timber and securing it on vehicles in preparation for transportation.

This code should be read in conjunction with the Ministry of Transport's Truck Loading Code.

Table of Contents

NOTICE OF ISSUE
FOREWORD
SUMMARY OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT ACT 1992

Regulations
Approved codes of practice
Employer's duties
Hazard management
Information for employees
Employers to involve employees in the development of safety and health procedures
Training of employees and the safety of others
Employees' duties
Self-employed people's duties
Accidents and serious harm: records and notification

ABOUT THIS CODE

Origins
Purpose
Terminology
Layout
Acknowledgements
Further information

Section 1: Design Requirements

1.1 Restraining the load
1.2 Restraint requirements
1.3 Vehicle requirements
1.4 Transportation on an open platform

Section 2: Restraint equipment

2.1 Headboard
2.2 Cab guard
2.3 Sideboards and tail gates
2.4 Side and centre posts
2.5 Load anchorage points
2.6 Securing devices
2.7 Tarpaulins
2.8 Rope or cordage
2.9 Chains
2.10 Webbing

Section 3: Timber stacking and packeting

3.1 Stacking timber
3.2 Stacking and securing timber in the open
3.3 Stack construction
3.4 Filleting timber
3.5 Packeting timber
3.6 Binding packets
3.7 Binding packets for transportation
3.8 Block stacking of packets
3.9 Breaking down stacks and packets
3.10 Maximum sizes of packets for transportation
3.11 Packeting other wood-based products and non-standard timber packets

Section 4: Standard methods

4.1 Securing devices for packets
4.2 Additional requirements for non-packeted timber
4.3 Example of chains for securing a 10 tonne payload

GLOSSARY