Why a small device that fits to a ladder has won a Gerringong business a national safety award

By Greg Ellis
Updated November 5 2019 - 6:13pm, first published 10:38am
Safety first: David Kay and Daniel Seidel with their National Safety Award.
Safety first: David Kay and Daniel Seidel with their National Safety Award.

Gerringong business Lacket has won a National Safety Council of Australia award for the safety product it invented to secure extension ladders for safe use. Kiama Downs paramedic David Kay founded the company with engineer friend Daniel Seidel friend after witnessing the devastating effects of wobbly extension ladders.

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