Operator
Certificates from Non UK. for Lift Truck
Operator Training
It is reasonable to expect an
employer to assess the competence of any new
operators as part of their general risk control
effort under the HSAW (section 2), Management of
Health and Safety at Work Regulations
(regulations 3 and 5) and PUWER regulation 9.
The possession of any documentation other than a
valid certificate of training awarded by a UK
training provider accredited by a HSE recognised
accrediting body
should not necessarily be
taken by an employer as evidence that an
operator has received training to the standards
described in the ACOP L117, regardless of the
country in which the training was provided.
With this in mind it is expected that any
accredited organisation will confirm operators’
skills by assessment and provide training based
on that assessment. In most circumstances it is
likely that holders of certificates of Lift
Truck Operator training issued by organisations
outside the UK (i.e. organisations not
accredited by a HSE recognised accrediting body)
will require training specified by an
accrediting body who has given the guidance
provided for “untrained lift truck operators
with experience", e.g. 3 days training at a
candidate, instructor, truck ratio of 3:1:1
There may also be a need to see previous
documentary evidence of experience ;IE an overseas
cert by the accredited training organisation.
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Plant pull out of CPCS Card Scheme !STAN CHAPMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE) National Plant Operators Registration Scheme Ltd As we are no longer part of CPCS there are a number of changes required to bring NPORS into line as an independent accrediting body and card scheme. Read more here .......... |
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merges with "ALLMI Training" On the 1st February this year, the Association of Lorry Loader Manufacturers and Importers (ALLMI) merged with ALLMI Training Ltd to form a single limited company. The formation of this company, ALLMI Ltd, brings a new corporate identity, part of which includes the new ALLMI logo (above left). ALLMI was founded in 1978 at the request of the Health & Safety Executive and has always been heavily involved in forming and influencing “Best Practice” within the lorry loader industry. Although ALLMI has been successfully involved in a number of issues, ALLMI members were polled in 2003 with regard to their feelings towards the Association, its activities and its overall profile. The response was that they wanted the Association to enjoy a much higher profile and to perhaps offer a number of peripheral services to its members. The poll within the ALLMI membership suggested a natural solution; that the Association should build towards merging ALLMI with ALLMI Training Ltd. This provides the organisation with synergies, a single point of contact and the structure to provide any peripheral services in addition to creating the opportunity for a stronger presence in the industry. This merger has now taken place and ALLMI is currently 13-months into a 24-month program of implementing some major changes. These include: -
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Teenage victims of forklift perilEvidence that dangerous machines and teenage workers do not mix have been demonstrated in three separate safety prosecutions this month. In February 2003, Timothy Whitton, aged 19 and his brother Stephen Whitton, aged 18, climbed on forklift at London firm Premier Storage. The brothers, who were employed at a neighbouring firm, suffered serious injuries when the forklift, driver by Premier employee Lee Smith, overturned. Timothy Whitton suffered a broken back, a broken right femur and dislocations to several of his toes, three of which were subsequently amputated. Stephen Whitton suffered a broken neck and smashed vertebrae. Lee Smith was fined £1,000 after a hearing this month at Croydon Crown Court. In a second case, teenage security guard Travers Clarke was fined £260 at Leeds Magistrates' Court after a delivery driver was injured in a March 2005 incident. Mr Clarke, then aged 19, agreed to use a forklift to unload from a lorry a consignment of cardboard used to make printed packaging. A pallet fell from the forks onto the 63-year-old delivery driver, fracturing his pelvis, foot and ribs, and causing spinal injuries. Mr Clarke had received no training and had been instructed by both the company whose site he was guarding and his employer, White Knight Security, not to use any work equipment on site. HSE Inspector Kathryn Wells, who carried out the investigation said: 'This case demonstrates all too clearly what can happen when an inexperienced and untrained driver gets behind the wheel of a forklift truck.' Teenager Anthony Gary Halpin was both the forklift driver and the victim of a related accident. David James Prosser, Director of DJP Poultry Handling Services Ltd, was fined £2,000 and told to pay costs of £1,555 at Ludlow Magistrates' Court following an incident in which the 17-year-old suffered fractures to his arm, wrist and hand when they became trapped in the forklift. Speaking after the case HSE investigating inspector Janice Dale said: 'The forklift truck was being operated by an untrained, unsupervised, 17-year-old driver. He had been employed by the company as a poultry handler and it was part of his job to drive forklift trucks although he had not attended any formal, approved training course. If he had, this incident could have been avoided.'
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| Firm fined over death
of worker A farming company has been fined £20,000 following the death of a 20-year-old female worker from Eastern Europe in a forklift truck accident. E.W. Pepper Ltd, of Wyndmere, Steeple Morden, Royston, Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty during a hearing at Stevenage Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. 8th Dec 2004 The accident happened at Bury Farm, in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire. The Health and Safety Executive case related to the firm's failure to use trained staff to drive forklift trucks. The company was also criticised for failure to control access to forklift trucks.
The breach of health and safety law was brought to the HSE's
attention when Hungarian employee Ezther Nagy, 20, died from
injuries sustained when a forklift truck, on which she was riding,
overturned on 17 July 2002. A subsequent investigation found the
company had poor control over access to its forklift trucks, with
particularly poor control over access to ignition keys. HSE
inspector David Head said he hoped this prosecution would send a
message out to all employees to prevent this type of accident
happening again. "We know forklift trucks can be dangerous and
recently we have seen several serious accidents with them," he said.
In court the firm was also ordered to pay £11,500 in costs. On Wednesday evening a spokesman for E.W. Pepper Ltd said it had
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crushes shopper DIY giant B&Q has been ordered to pay out £800,000 in fines and costs after a woman was crushed to death by a reversing forklift truck while shopping at one of its branches. The DIY giant was convicted of five counts of breaching health and safety law after Pamela Hinchliffe, 68, was struck by the lift truck at B&Q’s Poole store in June2001. Bournemouth Crown Court heard that B&Q failed to ensure that the control of forklift movements at the site complied with the company’s own safety guidelines. In particular, the court was told that CCTV evidence revealed that lift trucks were being operated at the site without banksmen to guide them. Speaking after the case, Peter Pawlowski, the Borough of Poole’s Head of Consumer Protection Service, said: “The fine of £550,000 together with the award of £250,000 prosecution costs represent a significant figure and one of the highest ever set for offences within the retail sector.” B&Q has lodged an appeal against the conviction. No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article (07/12/04) |
| ITSSAR categories ITSSAR trainers now have another two categories of truck they can train on. Both categories are with the "J" grouping and have individual descriptions. This continual review of the whole training programs and the need to be flexible with development within the lift truck training world is always at the forefront with ITSSAR accreditation scheme. Further category details can be found a Click Here |
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Haulage company fined £50,000 after
falling load kills driver (July 2004) Prosecuting on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), lan Bridge told Leicester Crown Court that 61-year-old lorry driver Kenneth Hicks was visiting Pallet Network Limited’s depot in Wigston, near Leicester, when the incident happened on 26 November 2002.
On the day of the standing in a warehouse next to his lorry as it was
being loaded by a forklift truck. During the operation, the truck lifted
a pallet load with a stack of boxes to place inside the lorry. However,
the court was told that the 540-kilogram stack of boxes toppled over,
striking Hicks as he attempted to steady the load. As a result, he
received severe head injuries, dying in hospital two months later. |
Lorry Loader Training Scheme. The
first to be recognised by the HSE We are pleased to announce that due to the consistently high standards of its training scheme, ALLMI Training Ltd. has been awarded the Health and Safety Executive’s ‘Working in Partnership’ logo of recognition. The logo comes complete with a commendation: “The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) commends the use of this Training Programme to those who have duties under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. This programme was drawn up with the participation of a HSE representative and will be referred to in relevant HSE publications.”
ALLMI
Training Ltd, the independent training accreditation service and
standards body for the UK lorry loader crane industry, has been
awarded the HSE’s ‘Working in Partnership’ logo of recognition
for its national training scheme. Acknowledged as the industry
standard, the scheme is designed to equip operatives with the
necessary skills and knowledge to make the use of lorry loader
cranes safer and more productive. You can find
there details at
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Double-decker ripped open
in fork-lift crash A FORK-LIFT truck sliced open a bus like a tin opener as the double-decker drove down one of the Capital’s busiest streets. One passenger, a 38-year-old man, had to be taken to hospital after torn metal from the side of the bus ripped open his left knee. Passengers told how they heard a loud bang as the forks punctured the metal sides of the bus, tearing a three-feet-long gash of ragged metal along its front left side. The forks left another rip almost 12-feet long down the bus’s rear left side. The injured man had been sitting at the very front of the bus on the left-hand side when the accident happened shortly after 2.20pm yesterday. The number 10 Lothian Bus was traveling up Leith Walk, past the junction with Albert Street, where the fork-lift truck was trying to enter the Walk. Emergency services feared mass casualties when reports of the accident first came in. A female passenger, who asked not to be named, said there had been about two dozen people on board when the collision happened. She said: "We were just passing Albert Street when I heard a bang and the sound of glass breaking. "A woman from downstairs went upstairs and asked whether everyone was all right and somebody said no, there’s a guy been hurt at the front of the bus. "A girl came down and said metal had gone into his leg and she had tied a tourniquet around it. "I got off after about ten minutes because I was so shaken up and the driver of the fork lift came on and asked whether everyone was all right." Emergency services were on the scene within minutes. A spokesman for the ambulance service confirmed that only one passenger needed treatment. He said: "A 38-year-old male was taken to casualty at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with lacerations to his left knee." The fork-lift truck was being operated by a sub contractor working for Ballast, a construction firm which is building a five-storey block of flats in Albert Street. David McKenzie of Ballast said: "We understand that the fork-lift truck was stationary with his handbrake on [at the time of the accident]. We are doing everything we can to ensure that the injured party is in good care, and that the police have all the assistance they need . "The fork-lift was licensed to be on public roads, and the driver - a very experienced, certified, fork-lift truck driver - would have been following a frequently-traveled route, turning on to Leith Walk in order to access a second site road." A spokesman for Lothian Buses said: "We are working with Lothian and Borders Police to establish exactly what happened. "As in any accident that happens, the driver was shaken, he was certainly not expecting something like that as he was driving up Leith Walk." A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police confirmed the force was investigating the cause of the accident. http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=206182003 No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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Forklift operator badly
injured It is reported that a forklift operator has sustained back, abdominal and leg injuries in an industrial accident at the premises of Target Express, Deans Industrial Estate, West Lothian. It is not known if the 26 year-old man's injuries are life-threatening No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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UPDATE POUNDS196K FOR DAD
Mar 8 2003 A WORKER whose legs were crushed when two tons of steel fell on him was awarded pounds196,000 compensation yesterday. The metal fell on father-of-two Michael Delaney when it was being unloaded from a lorry with a fork-lift. The Court of Session decided that McGregor Construction should have provided a proper crane. The construction firm denied any fault and had fought the case for more than three years. Mr Delaney, of Fort William, who now works as an electrician, said he was happy and relieved the case had come to an end at long last. No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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Forklift driver killed
It is reported that a forklift truck driver has died in an industrial accident on the Moorfield Industrial Estate, Kilmarnock. According to one account, the accident occurred when the driver was transferring pallets of bricks from one trailer to another and he was struck by the forklift as he dismounted from it. Update: The dead man is William Speirs, 57. Mr Shearer died at the premises of Chris Shearer haulage. It is reported that he left the forklift to clear a pallet when his machine moved forward and crushed him No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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Forklift driver killed after
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Lorry driver crushed to
death Mar 20 2003 A MERSEYSIDE lorry driver was crushed to death when he was caught between a fork lift truck and quarry equipment. The 53-year-old father-of-one from Whitby, Ellesmere Port, died at Cavendish Mill in Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, on Tuesday afternoon. Police and the Health and Safety Executive have launched an investigation into the incident which happened on the premises of Glebe Mining. It is thought that the man was injured at around 11.20am at the site's limestone processing plant, close to the quarry. It is understood that he had left his vehicle prior to the accident. Police said that the man, who has not been named, was airlifted to the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. It is understood that he was married and had a daughter. A team of HSE site inspectors arrived at the scene yesterday morning and sealed off the area although much of the quarry remained open for operations. Derbyshire Police have ruled out any suspicious circumstances but will remain in close contact with the HSE while interviews with witnesses are carried out. A HSE spokesman said: "It is believed that the man was crushed between a fork lift truck and a caterpillar load-ing shovel. "An investigation with the police is being carried out at the scene and interviews with witnesses will take place over the next few weeks. "This is a very delicate investigation and it is too early to say how the man came to be involved in this accident. A Derbyshire police spokesman said the death was not being treated as suspicious. A post mortem would be carried out by a Home Office pathologist before details are passed to the Derbyshire coroner. No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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UPDATE Fatally injured worker used truck's forks to gain access A fish processing company worker used a patently unsafe method of work to tend to large bags of fishmeal at his employer's premises. In December 2001 David Cobban accessed the stored product using the raised forks of a forklift truck from which he fell through four metres, sustaining fatal head injuries. Mr Cobban's employer, United Fish of Aberdeen, admitted and was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined £16,000 at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, failing to provide a safe system of work for Mr Cobban. HSE's John Radcliffe commented that the "biggest cause of serious and fatal accidents in industry is from working from height and transport in the workplace, the two most common factors of serious and fatal incidents which were present in this case." Forfab, based in Rothes, Moray, the forklift truck driver provider, was fined £4,000 in respect of failing to provide adequate training. No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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for company after driver sustained terrible injuries A lorry driver, Anthony Sadler, making a delivery in June last year to the premises of Ian Smith (Stationers) Ltd sustained crush injuries when he was struck by an inadequately trained forklift truck driver. Mr Sadler now must live with considerable disability as a consequence of that preventable accident. The forklift driver was only operating the truck because a director, in the absence of a manger, instructed him to use it believing him to be competent, however he was unfamiliar with that type of truck, his training some years earlier being on another type. Adhering to safety
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2002 All mobile plant equipment such as fork lift trucks, dumpers and tractors which have been provided for use before 5th December 1998 must be brought into compliance with part 111 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 98) by 5th December 2002. In real terms this has a major impact on Employers, the self employed or anyone in control 'to any extent' of mobile work equipment. It means that all relevant parties must ensure that their equipment is safe to use by preventing or controlling risks. This is not a completely new concept as the requirement of the regulations has been in effect for new equipment since the 5th December 1998. The are many risks involved in the use of mobile work equipment. But some of the most common risks are, being struck by the vehicle, the equipment tipping or rolling over, the operator of the equipment falling from the vehicle, the operator being struck by falling objects, unauthorised operation and use of the vehicle by untrained persons, braking systems not being maintained to correct and safe standards and bad or restricted driver visibility. PUWER 98 addresses these risks in part 111 by insisting that employers now take adequate measures to ensure that all work equipment in particular plant equipment is safe to use. There are many ways in which this can be achieved but one of the main areas to be addressed is: The fitting of restraining systems (seat belts, lap belts, etc) - PUWER 98 states under regulation 27 the requirement for 'provision of restraining systems to prevent crushing of the operator between the truck and the ground where there is a foreseeable risk of overturning' Due to the nature of a lift truck, all situations during use could constitute a risk of overturning therefore all Forklift trucks must be fitted with restraining devices of some kind by 5th December 2002 (further information on Fitting and use of restraining systems on lift trucks can be obtained by calling Us on 01536 517889 or in the HSE information sheet MISC241) It is a fact that unsafe work equipment is a major factor in a very large percentage of deaths and injuries every year. The statistics for 2001 alone show that three people were killed and 67 were seriously injured when they were struck by Industrial Lift Trucks. The changes in the regulations are evidence of the commitment of the Health and Safety Executive, to address this worryingly high amount of incident and injury No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article To Find more articles on seat restraint then please CLICK HERE |
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DUE TO FALL FROM FORK LIFT
TRUCK An employee of Tingdene Homes of Wellingborough died as the result of being crushed after falling from the forklift truck he was driving. As a result of the accident he had to have a leg amputated and he subsequently died from a blood clot. The court heard that the truck had been travelling over uneven ground and that the steering was faulty. Tingdene Homes were ordered to a fine and costs totaling £15,000. No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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Carrington Wire Ltd have been fined £15,000 because an employee received serious injuries to both legs after coming into contact with a fork lift truck on the company’s premises in Warrington. Modifications to the truck to enable it to carry coils of wire had reduced the driver’s visibility when driving the truck forwards. Continental Coffee Industries, based in Dunstable, was recently fined £8,000 with £6,000 costs after a fatal incident involving a fork lift truck at their premises. The driver of the truck, who was killed, was not licensed to drive the vehicle and should not have been doing so. It was against the company’s safety policy but it was admitted that the company had not taken sufficiently stringent steps to ensure that untrained and unlicensed personnel did not operate such machinery. The court accepted that, in this case, the company’s level of culpability was low hence the comparatively low fine for a case involving a fatality. A farmer from Shropshire has been sentenced to fifteen months in prison after a 16 year old worker was killed when a telescope materials handler overturned. According to the prosecution, the youth in question not received any training in the use of the vehicle. Although both a placement officer from the local agricultural college and an HSE inspector had specifically told the employer that the youngster must not be allowed to operate the machinery until trained, he had been allowed to drive the vehicle quite often. No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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Engineering Forgings Ltd of Bromsgrove
was fined a total of £30,000 after one of its workers was struck on the
head and killed by a steel fork, which had snapped off a forklift being
used as a crane. The Court heard how engineer Calvin Hughes died
instantly after being struck by the 37kg fork, which fell on him from a
height of 7 feet. The truck was being used as a crane - a rope having
been looped over 1 fork to lift a piece of metal. As this was happening
the other fork caught under a piece of equipment, causing it to snap.
The investigation by the HSE discovered a pre-existing metal fatigue
crack in the fork. The company was also had full costs of £32,481. No Responsibility accepted for the accuracy of this article |
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Find out if your firm has had a brush
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HSE recently published its first ever enforcement report, which names
hundreds of companies, organisations and individuals convicted of health
and safety crimes during 1999/2000. This implements the commitment in
the 'Revitalising Health and Safety' strategy statement.
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