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Advice from RTITB: How To Involve Your Forklift Operators In Health & Safety
It is reported that overall accident rates are lower in workplaces where the wider workforce participates in health and safety and employees feel they have a say. The awareness of the risks of slips and trips, for example, is supposedly greater (62%) where the...
How To Be A Better Forklift Operator
After successfully completing your forklift truck training, you will understandably be eager to get out and put your new, hard-earned skills into practice. Forklift driving is a career path where you are constantly learning and acquiring new skills as you become more...
3 Forklift Training Truths You Need To Know
Not All Your Time Will Be Spent Driving Forward In fact, the vast majority of your time spent in a training session will be in reverse. Learning how to safely manoeuvre a forklift truck to back round corners, or to reverse into tight spaces is an underestimated skill....
RTITB Forklift Truck Elearning
We have partnered with RTITB, the UK’s leading accrediting body for lift truck operator training, to offer accredited, quality eLearning, as an alternative to classroom-based training. Material Handling Equipment (MHE), and in particular equipment found in warehouses...
UPDATE FROM THE RTITB: MANUFACTURER FINED £200K AFTER LABOURER SUFFERS INJURIES IN FORKLIFT INCIDENT
A yacht manufacturer has been sentenced after an employee was injured when his forklift overturned. Back in August 2018, an employee was injured whilst helping to unload a delivery at the company’s site. The Counterbalance (Forklift) operator was operating a forklift...
Why Forklifts Are Important For A Safe & Efficient Warehouse
The importance of forklift trucks in the workplace is sometimes overlooked or taken for granted. At first glance, the role of the forklift in the warehouse is to transport loads from one place to another, but in reality; the forklift is the warehouse’s secret weapon....
The Top 5 Characteristics Of Successful Forklift Drivers
Here at Key Performance Training, we have trained hundreds of successful forklift truck operators over the years, which is how we came to be Swindon’s leading RTITB training provider. Our aim isn’t solely to train you up and send you on your way, with...
Fire Marshall Training
Did you know we offer Fire Marshal Training courses in partnership with Tactical Tuition? Many organisations neglect Fire Marshall Training in their workplace, school or group. Before anything else, we believe it is important to establish the need for completing this...
Forklift Hazards- How to avoid them
Did you know that there are on average 35,000 serious injuries and 85 deaths each year as a result of poor safety whilst operating a Forklift Truck? This frightening statistic shows just how dangerous these 4,000kg machines are, especially when those operating do not...