Training: Reachtruck - IS-002 - Experienced

Target audience

Employees working with a forklift truck on company premises, in plants, workshops, warehouses and having to perform tasks with a certain level of difficulty, e.g. stacking at heights, driving and stacking within a limited space, under time pressure, near important installations, with intensive loading and unloading, in places with traffic of persons and/or other means of traffic.

For employees working in the petrochemical industry, this exam must be taken in a recognised centre.
Conditions of admission

• Being at least 18 years old.
• Being in possession of a certificate of medical fitness (a/o for safety function)

Program

• The training takes 1 day
  • The theoretic exam takes 20 minutes (max 30)
  • The practical exam takes about 30 minutes

Results

THEORY

• The examinee can explain what a forklift truck is.
• The examinee can name the works for which a forklift truck can be used.
• The examinee can recognise other, similar means of transport for horizontal and vertical transport.
• The examinee can name auxiliary tools for horizontal and vertical transport and for handling special loads.
• The examinee can recognise different types of pallets and storage methods.
• The examinee can explain the major concepts with regard to the construction of the forklift truck.
• The examinee can name the different types of drive systems with their respective applications.
• The examinee can interpret correctly the basic regulations for using a forklift truck.
• The examinee can interpret correctly the safety and traffic regulations.
• The examinee can name the factors that may have an impact on stability.
• The examinee can interpret a load diagram.
• The examinee can name the parts of the pre-start inspection.
• The examinee can execute a Last-Minute Risk Analysis (LMRA).

PRACTICAL

• • Execute the pre-start inspection procedure.
• Performing a slalom, forward and in reverse
• Driving through a small passage, forward and in reverse (passage: width of forklift truck + 0.10 m).
• Loading and unloading of container or truck; pallets next to one another over entire width. The side shift may be used.
• Taking up and moving of high load.
• Stacking loaded pallets into racks (distance between racks = maximum length of forklift truck + 0.5 m; minimum stacking height 4 m; obstacle at the back of the rack).
• Driving up and down a slope (gradient at least 10% and at least twice the length of the forklift truck).
• Moving and stacking stackable boxes, boxes of pallet cage type.
• Moving a long load forward and in reverse through a small passage (length of load is at least twice the width of the forklift truck and the passage is maximum 80% of the length of the load).
• Parking of forklift truck at designated place.
• Charging the traction battery, filling up the forklift truck with diesel and changing the LPG gas bottle

Practical

Max 6 persons per 1 day training.

What to take with you:

• Identity papers
• Work clothes
• Safety shoes
• Safety gloves