RTITB Forklift Instructor Training Course
RTITB Lift Truck Instructor course will provide candidates with the skills required to instruct and examine operators for the working environment of lift trucks. Candidates will be equipped to understand how to do this in accordance with agreed best practice. This intensive 10 Day programme requires significant study. Participants will receive theoretical study material to study and will undergo training on instructional techniques, workplace hazards, forklift operator testing, theory and practice.
We currently don not have any course dates scheduled, please contact us for more details.
Course Content:
• 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
Potential candidates must either be pre-qualified Forklift operators or have successfully completed the requirements of the Novice Training Programme. In both cases, they must have formal training in operating the type of truck on which they are expected to instruct e.g. Counterbalance or Reach. Specifically:
• Candidates must have a current and valid Forklift Operators certificate
• Candidates must have completed the Novice Training Programme or received formal operator refresher training within the 12 months prior to attending the Forklift Instructor course
RTITB Certification and Instructor ID card
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
