Herman Miller

Overview

Herman Miller designs and manufactures high-end furniture, accessories and lighting for workspaces. The company began in the US in 1905 as the Michigan Star Furniture Company before being bought in 1923 by DJ De Pree and his father-in-law Herman Miller, who lent his name to the company from then on. The company made a name for itself by designing and manufacturing modern furniture and hiring designers who created many products that are now considered classic pieces.

Over 100 years later, Herman Miller is known for innovation, contemporary interior furnishings, ergonomic office chairs and elegant desks.

In the UK, Herman Miller's headquarters is based at PortalMill, a state-of-the-art facility in Melksham, Wiltshire. From here, all manufacturing and central business functions for the European region, including production and assembly of its market-leading office furniture, take place.

With such an extensive operation on site that includes a host of machinery and industrial equipment, worker safety is crucial. This is where Hutcheon Examination Services (HESL) has partnered with the furniture manufacturer. HESL has an established reputation in the health and safety industry, offering a host of compliance, examination and testing services for industrial equipment and machinery.

Innovation design – safe manufacturing

The protection of workers and safe operation of equipment is business critical for an organisation like Herman Miller, which is why it relies on our HESL team of qualified engineering surveyors to carry our regular examinations on all its lifting equipment and other machinery.

This is how we help Herman Miller

• LOLER examinations – the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (1998) state that all lifting equipment must be regularly examined to make sure it is fit for purpose. Our expert engineer surveyors conduct these examinations on all Herman Miller’s lifting equipment, including its fleet of electric forklift trucks.
• PUWER examinations – the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) cover the safety of all workplace machinery and equipment. For our work with Herman Miller, this includes examining equipment such as manual pallet trucks and electric pedestrian-controlled pallet trucks to ensure optimum operation and safety onsite.
• Load testing – we also work with Herman Miller to examine and test all load bearing equipment to make sure it complies with safety regulations and can support the weight needed, all with the aim of ensuring protected workers and safe operations.

Team work delivers streamlined services

We work with a wide range of companies and understand the importance they place on worker and equipment safety. Our expert team of fully qualified engineers is supported by a customer team – our central planning department – that makes the process of compliance a smooth one. The team is always on hand to answer questions, book inspections and make sure that customers like Herman Miller can focus on the business at hand while we take care of their examination and compliance requirements.