Fork Truck Leadership Safety Training
DO YOUR LEADERS
KNOW WHAT
TO DO?
Our Manager, Supervisor & Lead Powered Industrial Truck Leadership Training ensures that OSHA's requirement to immediately address and correct unsafe operations and conditions are met.
The challenge in aligning your business with this portion of the requirement is that the vast majority of managers, supervisors, and leads are unaware as to what constitutes improper/unsafe operation.
When should your leadership intervene in an observed unsafe act or condition? Is disciplinary action required in accordance with your companies discipline policy?
Should the powered industrial truck operator be pulled off of the equipment? Is an accident investigation and report required?
Does your leadership know how to correctly freeze incident facts in time to capture the details associated with a forklift or material handling equipment accident?
At 1:45 p.m. on May 7, 2019, an employee was assisting in the showing of a marble slab that was being placed back on the A-frame rack.
The operator of the forklift was placing the slab back on the A-frame rack, and the employee pulled back on the slab so the lifter could be removed to clear the rack when the slab fell on the employee. The employee was crushed against another slab in the rack and was killed.
Why is Safety Leadership Training So Important?
Material handling equipment, such as sit-down and stand-up forklifts, reach-trucks, order pickers/cherry pickers, turret trucks scissor lifts, and more are critical to handling and moving materials, equipment and finished goods safely throughout the facility.
However, complacency quickly sets-in with operators, employees, and members of the leadership team to the point where unsafe acts and conditions are simply ignored.
Do your powered industrial truck leaders know how to get to the true root cause of an incident to develop counter-measures to prevent the recurrence of the incident?
Powered Industrial Truck Leadership Training is designed to develop your leadership teams with the material handling equipment operation safety performance levels that are OSHA compliant and critical to developing and maintaining a safe working environment for all employees.
Complacency Kills
Material handling equipment, such as sit-down and stand-up forklifts, reach-trucks, order pickers/cherry pickers, turret trucks scissor lifts, and more are critical to handling and moving materials, equipment, and finished goods safely throughout the facility.
However, complacency quickly sets-in with operators, employees, and members of the leadership team to the point where unsafe acts and conditions are simply ignored.
When accidents do occur, they are more generally than not classified as operator error, and root causes are never identified or countermeasures put in place to prevent similar powered industrial trucks accidents from recurring.
It is a significant potential for an employee to sustain life-changing or deadly accidents due to this complacency. OSHA fines, lawsuits, impacts to morale, and production/delivery schedules are just the start.
Ensure your managers, supervisors, and leads have received proper training on the appropriate techniques for managing safe forklift operations.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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