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Mar152021 by adminNo Comments
New manual pallet truck course to tackle workplace injuries

New manual pallet truck course to tackle workplace injuries

Training
RTITB has developed a new training course for manual pallet truck operators to help reduce manual handling injuries in the workplace. Manual handling refers to transporting or supporting a load by hand or bodily force. It includes lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying, or moving loads, which includes the operation of manual pallet trucks (sometimes known as hand pallet trucks or ‘pump’ trucks). Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that the transportation injury has an above average rate of musculoskeletal injuries, many of which are likely to be linked to manually handling goods and could be avoided with the correct training. “Manual pallet trucks are in common use in warehouses, trailers and loading bays – these small trucks help keep things run...
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Feb92021 by adminNo Comments
New testing standards for counterbalance and reach truck training

New testing standards for counterbalance and reach truck training

Featured, Training
The Association of Industrial Truck Trainers (AITT) has highlighted important new testing standards for counterbalance and reach truck operator courses following updates made by the Accrediting Bodies Association for Workplace Transport (ABA). New testing standards for counterbalance & reach truck training The new standards will now include stand-on reach trucks (D3) and stand-on counterbalance trucks (B4). Some changes have been made to increase safety, for example audible warnings (horns) are now required as a mandatory item within pre-use checks. Other amends have been made to improve clarity: the reference “eye level” has been replaced by “medium level”. Operators are also being given the opportunity to correct manoeuvres to encourage better recognition of mistak...
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Jan262020 by adminNo Comments
Apprentice urges other women to consider careers in STEM

Apprentice urges other women to consider careers in STEM

Movers and Shakers, Training
An 18-year old former drama student from Liverpool, who is now just one of three female apprentices at Linde Material Handling is determined to trailblaze the way for other women to consider a career in engineering. Self-confessed tomboy Lucy Pover joined the team of 88 apprentices at Linde in September last year and since then has been working hard to prove to her male counterparts that women can be just as good, if not better than men at fixing forklift trucks. The 18-year old former drama student said, “Although I’m very much a tom boy who doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty and enjoying the practical hands-on approach to learning, I’m also a girlie girl at heart which can sometimes give people the perception that I don’t fit into this very male dominated field. “When I fi...
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Dec42019 by adminNo Comments
A Bright Future For Forklift Training

A Bright Future For Forklift Training

Training
A prominent forklift training provider has opened new opportunities for workplace transport training in the South West following its recent accreditation by the Association of Industrial Truck Trainers. Based in Bristol, HL Training Services provides on-site and in-house training for forklift instructors and operators. Despite being accredited by industry bodies ITSSAR and RTITB, HL Training Services’ management team made the major decision to gain a third accreditation, after noticing a lack of availability for AITT courses in the West Country. “Anyone in the South West looking to attend AITT training courses would have to travel to the Midlands or further east,” said Shane Richardson, Director at HL Training Services. “But our new AITT Accreditation means we can provide courses...
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Oct142019 by adminNo Comments
RTITB transforms lift truck training with eTruck UK

RTITB transforms lift truck training with eTruck UK

Training
RTITB is changing lift truck training forever with its new offering, eTruck UK – a completely unique digital storytelling tool that will increase training effectiveness while reducing training time by as much as 2 days per course. “Traditionally, lift truck operator training covers the required theory and practice behind operation but is not designed with a focus on behavioural change,” says Laura Nelson, Managing Director for RTITB, the preferred workplace transport training regulatory body. “However, our new eTruck UK offering is unique, using digital storytelling to teach operators the reasons behind driver behaviour and why people may make bad decisions, alongside the relevant theory.” eTruck is an award-winning digital storytelling system, developed by MA Systems in Sweden, ...
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Aug252019 by adminNo Comments
New Managing Forklift Operations e-learning course

New Managing Forklift Operations e-learning course

Training
Mentor FLT Training, the UK’s leading provider of forklift and safety management training, will soon launch an all new online Managing Forklift Operations course to help busy managers fit training around daily demands. The first e-learning course of its kind in the UK, Managing Forklift Operations is AITT accredited, and specifically developed by Mentor for managers and supervisors responsible for overseeing forklift use on site. It outlines their personal responsibilities for safety and provides the vital knowledge and confidence required to recognise bad practice and stop it in its tracks. Not only does the course help businesses meet their legal responsibilities under Approved Code of Practice L117, it also demonstrates the associated benefits of safe operations, giving man...
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Jul312019 by adminNo Comments
AITT and FLTA form dynamic new alliance

AITT and FLTA form dynamic new alliance

Training
The Association of Industrial Truck trainers and the Fork Lift Truck Association have announced a strategic alliance aimed at maximising the flow of information, guidance and resources to those working within the forklift truck industry, as well as those owning and operating equipment on site. “It is a perfect fit,” explained Adam Smith, Managing Director of AITT — the UK’s fastest-growing accrediting body in the workplace transport sector. “Both organisations have a wealth of knowledge and experience and are firmly rooted in the real world, delivering innovative and practical initiatives to benefit members and customers alike.” As a result of the new relationship, AITT will be granted Partnership Member status by the FLTA. This will allow access to a variety of online informatio...
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Jul162019 by adminNo Comments
F-TEC Celebrates Three Years in Business

F-TEC Celebrates Three Years in Business

Training
July 2019 sees the Forklift Training Engineering Centre (F-TEC), the dedicated training facility, celebrate its third year in business. F-TEC, based in Swindon, Wiltshire, offers an extensive range of forklift engineering programmes, including; apprenticeships, advanced level courses, thorough examination, diagnostics, safety, and more. Karl Baum, Managing Director of F-TEC said, “Since the business started three years ago, we’ve gone from strength to strength. F-TEC now boast a team of 14 who manage the apprentice and commercial training.” Over the past three years F-TEC has trained in excess of 600 engineers, of all ages and abilities. Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, who recently visited F-TEC, said, “It’s fantastic to celeb...
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May132019 by adminNo Comments
STILL Opens New Training Centre to Boost Future Competences

STILL Opens New Training Centre to Boost Future Competences

News, Training
STILL inaugurated its brand new training centre in Fürth earlier this week. On a total usable floor area of 475 m2, STILL trainers offer future talented staff the optimum framework conditions for soundly-based training, says the company. From now on – in addition to the training centre at the parent company’s headquarters in Hamburg – there is now a second central place of learning here where trainee mechatronics engineers from the whole of Germany in their advanced years of training congregate to jointly complete modular practical seminars specific to intralogistics. Several months of rebuilding time have created modern teaching rooms with an attached mechatronics workshop. This building, whose façade design reflects the STILL Corporate Design, allows a perfect combination of theor...
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Mar12019 by adminNo Comments
Firms potentially wasting £1,000s on lift truck training according to RTITB

Firms potentially wasting £1,000s on lift truck training according to RTITB

Training
Many businesses that outsource their lift truck training could save thousands of pounds and improve efficiency by training in-house and achieving their own in-house accreditation. RTITB is offering a free of charge cost analysis to help businesses make the right choice. “Many firms keep outsourcing their lift truck training without stopping to consider if it is right for them,” says Laura Nelson, Managing Director, RTITB, the preferred regulatory body for workplace transport training. “Quite often outsourced training is an exercise to tick a compliance box and can be considered to be the cheaper and easier solution. This is often not the case as the cost of courses, travel, certification, internal administration and the days of wasted training soon mounts up.” For businesses such...
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