TILLYCROY SUPPORT SERVICES

Tillycroy Support Services are specialists in the provision of onsite forklift training. We pride ourselves in our goal of providing you with a reliable, dedicated service and the professional, highly motivated forklift training which your operatives deserve. 

 

All of our instructors are RTITB Registered and experienced on all truck types and all courses are specific to the truck type for which training is supplied. 

 

All training and certification fully satisfies the requirements of the HSE Approved Code of Practice L117.

 

Our company focus is to stand out from the crowd by delivering the highest quality of training at the best possible price. 

 

Our training can be delivered to suit your operational needs and to fit your shift patterns including nights and weekends. 

 

Why is training necessary?

 

It is estimated that each year 10% of all investigated accidents involving lift trucks are caused largely by the lack of operator training, resulting in injury to operators and to those around them (Health & Safety Executive (HSE) figures).

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Provison and Use of Work Equipment Regulations Section 9

 

"Every employer shall ensure that all persons who use work equipment have received adequate training for purposes of health and safety, including training in the methods which may be adopted when using the work equipment, any risks which such use may entail and precautions to be taken.

Every employer shall ensure that any of his employees who supervises or manages the use of work equipment has received adequate training for purposes of health and safety, including training in the methods which may be adopted when using the work equipment, any risk which such use may entail and precautions to be taken."

 

Failure to train your operatives correctly could be considered to be:

• A breach of PUWER 1998 (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations) or a breach of LOLER 1998 (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations)

• There is the very real possibility that if there is an accident, and the Health & Safety Executive bring a prosecution to court, your company could be found to be negligent in discharging its duties under the Health & Safety at Work Act. This could mean that your company insurance could be invalidated. Ultimately the directors could be found to be personally liable and incur unlimited fines.

• The potential for adverse publicity, should a company be convicted, and the subsequent loss of goodwill and business should be deterrent enough to ensure that good standards of health and safety training are maintained.

 

Therefore employers should not allow anyone to operate mechanical handling equipment, or work for their company even on a very casual basis, if they have not satisfactorily completed basic and industrial skills training and testing.

 

Training, followed by regular monitoring of performance of your operatives, is by far the best way to promote safe and good working practices. Implementing an effective on-going training programme is therefore not only desirable, it is a legal necessity, and is the first step in reducing damage and injury to key personnel.

 

 

Typical Forklift Truck Training Course Content:

 

- Operators safety code HASAWA 1974, PUWER98 & LOLER98 

   Regulations and ACOPS

- Safety / Operational Health film specific to truck type

- Health and Safety Awareness

- Introduction to the truck to be used for flt training

- Controls and Instruments

- Starting, moving, stopping and steering the truck

- Steering in open and restricted areas

- Hydraulic system and it's safe use

- Weight assessment and lift truck stability

- Handling unladen and laden pallets and racking system use

- Driving on inclines

- Road vehicle loading and unloading procedures

- Pre-use checks

- Refueling / recharge procedures 

- Testing to include pre-use, theory and practical exam

 

Courses Available Include:

 

NOVICE

for persons with no previous experience of operating lift trucks

(3-5 days depending on candidate numbers)

 

EXPERIENCED

for persons who have some previous experience of operating lift trucks, but are not able to provide satisfactory documentary evidence that they have been trained, tested and certified.

(2-3 days depending on candidate numbers)

 

REFRESHER

for persons who have been given adequate formal basic operator training and who are appropriately certified to operate lift trucks.

(1 day)

 

 

Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss your requirements.