Course description
Forklift trucks are central to logistics and other industrial operations, but the associated risks are high – particularly for those working alongside them.
Every working day, five lives are changed – in an instant – because of injuries resulting from accidents involving forklift trucks. You only need to take a cursory look over the HSE’s forklift accident figures to see how serious the problem is.
The most recent accident statistics show forklifts are officially the most dangerous form of workplace transport in the country: injuring more people than Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) or Large Goods Vehicle (LGV). In fact, 25% of workplace transport injuries are a direct result of forklift truck accidents.
Around 1,300 UK employees are hospitalised each year with serious injuries following forklift accidents, and that number is rising. That’s five UK workers each workday suffering debilitating and life-changing injuries, including complex fractures, dislocations, degloving and amputations.
Pedestrians are particularly at risk – accounting for 57% of those injured or killed in forklift accidents. This highlights the need for better segregation between vehicle and pedestrian areas of the workplace. This is a particularly pressing issue in high-traffic areas like loading bays, where pedestrians and forklifts are regularly in close proximity.
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Who Benefits From This Course?
Everyone who work around, with or in operations that have forklift trucks or other powered industrial trucks operating in their area, factory, workshop or site!
The world is changing quickly and businesses need employees with training, knowledge and skills in order to be competitive. People who continually develop their professional skills or pursue higher education and training, are placing themselves at the forefront for career advancement opportunities in their future. By giving yourself or your employees, the knowledge to perform your role safely at work, you will stay safe at work and go home safe, which makes the rest and play time in life, far more rewarding, whatever it is you love to do.
Training Course Content
- Legislation and legal duties for operation of a forklift truck
- Type of forklift trucks
- Forklift operation and stability
- Forklift load movements and terrain
- Forklift inspection, attachments and maintenance
- Safe operating and hazardous practices
- Forklifts and pedestrians traffic
- Loading and unloading hazards and safe practices
- Unattended forklifts
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