For your workers to operate forklifts properly, they have to be trained well. And so, it’s critical for a forklift trainer to receive training, especially if your company has a high operator turnover. If you’re a top-tier forklift trainer, it translates into high productivity amongst your forklift operators.
At Forklift Training Systems, we level up the skills of forklift trainers. We execute our training while prioritizing safety and OSHA forklift compliance. This course is aimed at triggering the resolve in forklift operators to improve safety and efficiency at the workplace.
The duties and responsibilities of a forklift operator are wide-ranging. But it takes proper training to deliver good results. Our train the trainer course prepares the forklift trainer to manage effective forklift operators. And the following courses are critical.
1. New Operator Training
Before someone can be allowed to operate a forklift, this is a course that they must undergo. They are typically new to operating forklifts and the trainer needs to be very particular. Also, the trainer needs to have excellent safety standards. This course involves evaluation and testing as it is critical to see if the operator can execute their duties and responsibilities properly. Forklift trainers need to be psychologically and technically equipped to instill the skills into novices and enable them to carry out their duties without safety risks or productivity issues.
2. Operator Refresher Training Course
One of the OSHA requirements is that a forklift operator needs to receive new certification after every three years. This course emphasizes forklift operation, with a bias on safety standards and also state guidelines in regard to effective forklift usage. Forklift operators need to undergo this training to be certified and continue operating forklifts. As a forklift trainer, you need to be prepared to handle this course properly, so that your forklift operators may perform well. Some of the things focused on include safety rules, driving hazards, and pre-shift inspection.
3. Elevated Work Platform Training
This course covers all the activities that are executed in elevated work platforms. Safety hazards around elevated work platforms can be particularly serious. Both new and veteran forklift operators need to be trained on how to act in elevated work platforms. The training includes different things including aerial boom lift, forms of elevated work platforms, procedures of safe operation, and common hazards. Big companies usually have elevated platforms and it’s essential that your forklift trainers are sufficiently educated around this or else they put themselves and everybody else at risk.
4. Propane Cylinder Exchange Training
Propane is a gas that fuels various industrial processes. Some forklifts are fuelled by propane. Poor handling of propane can have disastrous effects. And so, forklift operators that work with propane-fueled forklifts need to undergo the propane cylinder exchange training. This course enables the trainer to be conversant with the safe usage, exchange, and filling processes of propane cylinders. This course prepares operators to be able to handle and transport propane tanks, maintain safety, and change propane tanks on propane-fueled forklifts. The trainers need to be specially trained so that they can sufficiently prepare operators to handle lifting devices that are powered by propane.
5. Fall Arrest Training
This course is designed to help people that work in elevated workplace environments and sensitize them on fall protection safety. Safety hazards vary depending on the industry and type of work. One of the most important areas covers personal fall arrest procedures and safety net installation. This course also covers various important areas like performing hazard assessments, creating a rescue and escape plan, understanding common causes of falls, how to examine the safety of equipment, and the utilization of fall protection equipment. This is a critical course that enables operators to have full safety while carrying out their roles and duties.
6. Battery Training Program
Batteries have a massive role in an industrial setting. And this course covers all the important areas around handling and maintaining batteries. Operators are trained on the proper maintenance, transfer, charging, and safety standards around batteries. This is a critical course that improves workers’ safety and minimizes damage. The course covers different areas like daily battery maintenance, battery watering, battery transfer, and detecting faulty batteries. It’s a critical course that promotes the effective utilization of resources.
7. Lockout Training
Failing to shut off machines can lead to massive wastage of resources, and in certain cases, horrible accidents. This course caters to the turning off of machines and energy sources. It covers important areas like turning off machines, moving lockout devices, and performing various critical tests.
Before a forklift operator is cleared to perform their roles and duties, they have to undergo forklift training. But then, the quality of their training is dependent upon the proficiency of their trainers. Forklift trainers that want to step up their game can rely on Forklift Training Systems.
