Protecting people from the warehouse to the road: Powerfleet at The Health & Safety Event 2026

Powerfleet will exhibit at The Health & Safety Event 2026 – marking the company’s first appearance at the UK’s foremost workplace safety forum. Taking place from 28 to 30 April at the NEC in Birmingham, the event brings together seasoned health and safety professionals from manufacturing, logistics, construction, warehousing, transport, and beyond. Powerfleet will be at Stand 3/C10, positioned adjacent to the Knowledge Exchange Theatre.

For an organisation whose core purpose is helping businesses reduce workplace risk and protect their people, the fit is deliberate.

The statistics that frame this industry make the case plainly. 124 workers were killed in work-related accidents in the UK in 2024/25, while 680,000 sustained a non-fatal workplace injury in the same period. One in six of those fatalities involved being struck by a moving vehicle – a category that has claimed an average of 21 lives annually over the past five years.

On the road, 29% of all UK road fatalities involve someone driving for work. The estimated annual cost of workplace injuries and ill health in the UK stands at £22.9 billion. These are not edge cases. They are the baseline against which every safety programme in the country is measured.

Powerfleet’s position is that technology, properly deployed and embedded within a strong safety culture, can shift that baseline. Visitors to Stand 3/C10 will be able to see this in practice through live demonstrations of four solutions.

• The Forklift Gateway (VAC) manages operator access control, pre-use inspection compliance, and impact detection across powered industrial vehicles.
• Pedestrian Proximity Detection (PPD) uses AI-enabled vision to identify pedestrians and industrial vehicles in real time, issuing warnings before an incident can occur – with no requirement for wearable tags or specialist apparel.
• VisionAI applies the same principle to road-going fleets, detecting distracted driving, fatigue, and mobile phone use before they lead to collisions.
• And Unity, Powerfleet’s single operational platform, consolidates data from on-site assets and on-road vehicles into one unified view – giving safety leaders visibility across their entire operation, not just parts of it.
  
  

Across these solutions, Powerfleet customers have recorded an 85% reduction in forklift damage costs, a 70% reduction in on-site risks and accidents, a 60% reduction in road collisions, an 84% improvement in driver safety scores, and a 10:1 return on investment.

On Thursday, 30 April, Powerfleet will host a panel session at the Knowledge Exchange Theatre at 11:10: "One Accident, Real Consequences: What Safety Leaders Need to Learn."

Moderated by Mark Tilley of Nineteen Group, the session features Justin Bond, Enterprise Business Development Manager at Powerfleet; Lisa Ramos of P2BS, who speaks from personal experience of a warehouse forklift accident; and Alan McEnteggart, Health & Safety Advisor at the UK Materials Handling Association. The conversation will examine what allows accidents to happen, what genuinely prevents them, and what organisations can act on immediately.

To book a meeting ahead of the event, visit our dedicated landing page here. To register for a complimentary visitor ticket, click here.