Continuing Forklift and
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Operators & Management
At approximately 10:50 or 11:00 a.m. on December 21, 2018, an employee was working for a newspaper publisher. He was loading newspaper inserts onto the loader hopper of an inserting machine.
He was working at his workstation with his back to an EZ Loader table. A nearby coworker was operating a sit-down electric forklift to load pallets of newspaper inserts onto the EZ Loader tables. The coworker positioned a pallet onto the EZ Loader table. As he drove the forklift forward, he drove it into the employee at the work station.
The employee's leg was pinned between the EZ Loader Table and the workbench of the loader hopper. The employee was transported by ambulance to St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL. He was hospitalized.
The employee was admitted for surgery on his injured leg. Two subsequent surgeries were performed to amputate his leg. The employee sustained the amputation of his leg above the thigh.
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Continuing Education
The continuing forklift equipment education program helps protect your training investment through regular, follow-on continuing education sessions. This training is sent to all participants who successfully completed one of our courses and can be forwarded to members of your team to share.
Sharing the continuing forklift and equipment education materials with operators, leads, supervisors and members of your management team helps to improve facility safe equipment operation.
Do Your Leaders Know How to Maintain a Safe Facility?
The continuing education program delivers brief, high-quality training topics to help sustain your team's knowledge and skill set.
Ensure members of your leadership team know:
• How to properly supervisor equipment operators;
• What safety concerns to watch for;
• How to maintain a safe facility;
• How to complete accident investigations;
• How to conduct facility safety assessments;
• Code reviews;
• OSHA compliance, and more
Ensure your employees know and understand safe and proper operating skills, how to prevent accidents, injuries, and property damage, such as:
• Proper load preparation and unitizing;
• Proper load handling;
• Proper / safe operation of the equipment;
• Bad operator habits;
• What safety equipment should be considered for use;
• How to conduct equipment pre-operation inspections;
• How to conduct equipment operation inspections;
• When and how to red-tag equipment;
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Training Doesn't Stop When Class Ends
When operating heavy industrial equipment within your operations, it's vital to ensure employee training doesn't end when the class is complete. With most current training providers, the training ends as soon as they’ve left your facility.
With training sessions generally lasting only a couple of brief hours, it’s truly imperative that your operators receive exposure to continuing educational topics throughout the year.
Employee training is an OSHA requirement. Continuing your operator’s exposure to professional information and resources also helps to protect the business against employee accidents, injuries, damage to critical infrastructure, and potential loss of market share or worse.
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When One Bad Operator Brings Business to a Halt
If you’ve seen videos on YouTube showing serious equipment accidents taking down entire warehouse racking arrays you understand that one small operator misstep or failing to properly guard or protect racking vertical and horizontal members can expose your business and jobs to significant interruption or loss.
Continuing education modules include video assessments, code reviews, accident investigations, short training classes, and more. Get the continuing education resource materials you need, but don’t realize you need.
Membership has its benefits!
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