Workers safer than supervisors?
Over the past 25 years, the UK’s forklift truck accident record has improved significantly. Working with – or alongside – lift trucks is far less dangerous than it’s ever been. But the latest workplace transport figures show that the rate of improvement has stalled.
Together with the FLTA, training specialist Mentor conducted the UK’s biggest lift truck safety survey. Its findings suggested frontline workers have a far firmer grasp of safe operations than their supervisors.
These findings, coupled with the revised Approved Code of Practice (L117) – which formalised the requirement for managers and supervisors responsible for forklift operations to be able to communicate effectively with operators and line managers and maintain and promote health and safety standards – made a significant case for a course that addressed Managing Forklift Operations.
Mentor launched their AITT and IOSH accredited Managing Fork Lift Operations (MFO) course at the FLTA Safety Conference in September 2013. Since then, Mentor has trained more than 1,000 managers and supervisors across 94 companies.
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