Forklift
Forklifts present certain dangers and challenges in operating. It’s the number one reason why employers require that you be a specific age and have completed the proper operations training. Torrance forklift training via Hazard Eliminators can make all the difference in the event there’s a forklift emergency.
In addition to forklift training, Hazard Eliminators offers confined space training. Sometimes a forklift accident can cause an avalanche of items onto the forklift, burying you in the forklift underneath. Knowing how to survive this situation is as important as learning how to drive the forklift safely. Contact Hazard Eliminators.
Learning How to Check the Forklift Prior to Operating It
Be sure to check your machine before you start it. If the machines utilize gas, there should be enough gas in them. Most indoor forklifts are rechargeable electric machines, and they need to be fully charged.
The forklifts should go through a quick visual inspection inside and out. Controls should be functional, and gauges should read properly. The brakes and the gas pedal should be operational. The wheels or tires should be intact and inflated, if applicable. All of the pre-operational inspection tasks are taught in torrance torrance forklift training.
Monitoring Safe Operation
There are many facets to operating a forklift within safety parameters. When you take this training, you will learn how to speed, the weight of the load off the front, moving around pedestrians in the area, and how to safely change directions with or without a load on the fork impact safety.
Learning how to drive the forklift requires practice. Learning how to drive with a load on the fork takes skill. This training goes through all of the steps, building on all of the previous steps.
Confined Space Training After an Accident
While the confined space training is offered as a standalone training, it is recommended that it be offered and taken at the same time as forklift training. In the event that you end up in a forklift accident buried under a pile of stuff in a warehouse, this training can help you survive.
Confined space training teaches how to find air to breathe while trapped, how to look for an exit, how to carefully move around in the confined space, and what happens if the space becomes more dangerous. If chemicals are pouring out into space or a fire starts from above, you’re taught how to survive this.
Learning How to Perform a Rescue in Confined Space Situations
Another aspect of confined space training addresses the rescuers who are not trapped underneath the rubble or boxes. Taking the confined space training isn’t just about learning to survive. It’s about learning how to help those who are trapped.
THE HAZARD ELIMINATORS DIFFERENCE
Hazard Eliminators has many different OSHA-approved workplace safety training. When you choose to set up and pay for training for you or your employees through Hazard Eliminators, you or your employees get the best training for their jobs and the training approved by OSHA. During safety inspections, OSHA inspectors will see that you invested in the right training for everyone.
Prevention is key to preventing dangerous accidents, and training is key to prevention. Call Hazard Eliminators.