Duration: 10 days
This course is suitable for experienced and certificated drivers who wish to qualify as instructors. Successful participants can register as RTITB Instructors and also examine and issue RTITB certificates.
This is an intensive 10 – day programme that requires significant study. Participants undergo training on instructional techniques, workplace hazards, forklift operator testing, theory and practice. Candidates should be chosen carefully for this programme. The ideal candidate should have sufficient experience and skill in operating a forklift truck and be of a confident nature. This course is externally examined by an RTITB examiner.
Who should attend?
Potential candidates must be highly skilled operators and have broad experience along with formal training in operating the type of truck on which they are expected to instruct e.g. Counterbalance or Reach.
Pre-Course requirements:
- Candidates must have a current and valid Forklift operators certificate
- Candidates must have several years Forklift driving experience
- Candidates must have received formal operator refresher training within the 12 months prior to attending the Forklift Instructor course
If a candidate trains as a Counterbalance Forklift Instructor, this will only qualify him/her to deliver training on Counterbalance Trucks. A further one day conversion course would be required to qualify the instructor to deliver training on Reach trucks
Assessment/Certification:
Participants complete a theoretical and practical exam. On successful completion of the exam participants are awarded an RTITB Forklift Instructor Certificate.
Objectives:
On completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Plan, prepare and present forklift instruction
- Conduct and mark theoretical tests
- Issue certificates to operators
- RTITB standards
Course Programme:
- Safety, Health and Welfare at work Act 2005
- Instructional techniques
- Safety responsibility of the operator
- Workplace hazards
- Assessment of participants’ operating abilities
- Pre-service checks
- Presentations of practical lessons by participants
- Forklift truck operator testing, theory and practice
- Assessment by outside examiner and examination
