Steps To Hire a Forklift Trainer

Forklift comes under heavy machinery. It’s a common sense that it must be operated after proper training. According to one research 70-90% forklift related accidents are due to operator's error. So it’s an employer responsibility to give proper training to all operators. They must ensure that all operators are certified. Forklift training not only reduces safety risks but also lowers forklift maintenance cost and increase productivity. Employers are highly responsible to offer good training program to all their operators. So success of good training program depends upon good trainer. Companies should hire good trainer so that he can plan out forklift training program according to needs. Here are few important steps to hire a good forklift trainer.

• Before hiring any trainer, check out his qualification and experience. He is eligible and enough qualified to provide training to all your operators. He has enough experience in order to plan out training program according to organization needs.

• It is important to ask the trainer to visit your site. In this way he can actually visualize the situation and can plan training program according to organization’s need. 

• Forklift training program should be through, systematic and well planned. Its sound an easy but it is necessary that it must be planned according to requirements. A good training program should cover all regulations and activities such as safety, inspection etc.

• A good training program should also include class room training. Its trainer responsibility to make it interesting by adding videos and power point presentation. Don’t forget to introduce basic concepts in class room training like safety, health and fueling etc.

• Basic concepts are necessary but never ignore hand on training needs. Trainer must include hand on training in forklift training program. First trainer should operate forklift himself so that operators could observe him. Different models of forklift are available in market. So operators must be trained to handle particular model, which they are using.

These points are necessary to hire a forklift trainer so that he could plan out training program in such a way to meet organizational requirements successfully.