Refresher Forklift Training Services
Refresher forklift training services
Basic Operator Refresher Training Course
For Industrial Counterbalanced &
Training Course Description:
Trained and Certificated Operators (Basic Operator Refresher Training Course)
Course member specification:
This operator training course is designed for those operators who have earlier been given adequate formal basic operator training and are appropriately certificated to operate industrial counterbalanced or reach truck rider operated (documentary evidence of eligibility must be provided to support this claim). They should be over the minimum school leaving age (except in docks where they must be of at least 18 years of age), they should have a reasonable degree of physical fitness and must be able to satisfy the requirements set out in the guidelines prepared by the Employment Medical Advisory Service and HSG6 'Safety in working with Lift Trucks' produced by the HSE.
Those selected should also possess the necessary level of mental fitness and learning ability required.
Training course aim:
To provide effective basic operator refresher training for those operators who have earlier been given adequate formal basic operator training and are appropriately certificated to operate industrial counterbalanced or reach trucks rider operated. This operator training course is designed to meet the requirements placed upon employers with regard to their duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974; the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER); the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER), as applicable and other relevant regulations and codes of practice.
Training course objective:
On successful completion of this operator refresher-training course, the course member will be able to:
- Operate the truck model used during the training course, safely and correctly in accordance with the manufacturers operator procedures manual and in accepted good operating practices.
- Show their understanding, by clearly stating the causes of instability of trucks and loads.
- Carry out correctly the routine pre-use inspection of the lift truck in accordance with the manufacturers operator procedures manual.
Location:
On customer premises.
Course member:
Instructor: 1
Truck ratio: 3 : 1 : 1
Training course duration: 1 Day
Note: The duration of this training course will depend on the required timings for completing identified and/or, self declared areas of driving/operating weakness. It will therefore, be incumbent on the training provider/instructor to determine the training requirements accordingly. Where remedial training period durations are likely to exceed that of one day the training course member and sponsor company representative should be informed and agreement obtained for the necessary remedial training requirements to be given.
Certification:
Those course members who achieve a pass in both the practical and theoretical knowledge elements of the examination will be awarded with the lift truck operators 'Basic Skills Test' Certificate and inclusion to the RTITB National Operators Register.
An RTITB Accredited Training Organisatiion
NWFT/RefCD 06/06