Telehandler Training

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Operators must undergo essential Health and Safety Training to ensure they can operate Telescopic Handlers safely, efficiently, and competently. By the end of the course, operators should be able to articulate the importance of Operator Skills Training and successfully complete a basic operatives skills test as outlined in the HSE publication Rider-Operated Lift Trucks, Approved Code of Practice, (L117). 

Training is available exclusively at the client's site.

Course Content

- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 – Employers & Employees Duties

- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)

- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)

- Principle of counterbalance

- Rated capacity/Load centres and safe load indicator (SLI)

- Understand the causes of instability of lift-truck and load

- Explain actions required for hazards, including underground and overhead services

- Operators safety code

- Theory test

Practical

- Carry out pre-use inspection checks

- Refuelling and maintenance

- Basic steering including 2 wheel, 4 wheel, and crab steering

- Advanced steering (rough terrain and confined areas)

- Elementary use of hydraulic controls

- Loading and unloading a vehicle (if required)

- Use of scaffold towers

- Use of free standing stacks (if required)

- Stacking and de-stacking at all levels from ground to high levels

- Operators practical skills test