Working with a forklift – advanced (IS-001)

Cargo handling & logistics · Safety · Classroom ·

Target Audience

Any employee who has to carry out simple operations with a forklift truck in a warehouse or production environment (tasks of low difficulty, in an open space, simple repetitive work with no time pressure).

Objectives

Acquire the knowledge and skills needed to drive a forklift efficiently and safely.

Train operators so that they can report faults/disturbances in a preventive manner and thus avoid accidents/injuries.

Teach operating, load handling, and driving techniques to reduce environmental damage caused by transport.

Course content

THEORY

• Performing a safety function.
• The different versions of a forklift.
• Safety rules: safe assembly and disassembly, safety cage, environmental risks, driving safety rules.
• Inspection according to equipment application.
• Important concepts concerning the structure of a forklift and its controls.
• Forklift construction specifications.
• Stability concepts.
• Steering of three- and four-wheel vehicles and their behaviour when cornering.
• Advantages and disadvantages of electric or thermal drive.
• Reading a load diagram.
• Handling loads correctly and safely.
• Approaching, picking up and moving loads.
• The elements of the commissioning check, the obligation to notify, and the procedure for taking the device out of service.
• Correct parking and checks after work.
• Connecting, disconnecting, changing, and maintaining batteries.

PRACTICE

• Perform start-up checks, recognise dangerous defects and report them.
• Check inspection documents and apply safety rules apply.
• Use controls correctly.
• Using good driving technique: forward and reverse, turning, parking.
• Interacting with pedestrians and other drivers.
• Performing the correct sequence of operation.
• Estimating distances, depth and height.
• Approaching, picking up and moving loads.
• Entering and exiting warehouse racks.