RITE-HITE, one of the leading manufacturers of loading bay and industrial safety equipment, has launched a new comprehensive programme of virtual and in-person training for loading dock and in-plant solutions, helping to continuously improve safety and efficiency at the warehouse.

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RTITB HAS launched a new eLearning course for those ‘Managing and Supervising’ Material Handling Equipment Operations’, highlighting that it’s not only lift truck operators at fault when an incident occurs and that many who are currently managing, or supervising lift truck operations are unaware of what their role entails, and that legislation requires them to be trained to supervise these operations.

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Interroll is expanding interactive contact with customers through new online services: Training events can be booked and conducted via the Internet, meetings with experts can be organised, and short videos accessed.

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Workplace accidents, injuries and fatalities are frequently occurring as employers fail to check the qualifications and training credentials of agency staff working in lift truck operations, warns RTITB.

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With the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 98 stating that all individuals operating lifting equipment should receive the appropriate training, Contact Attachments is inviting users of forklift attachments – whether purchased from the company or not – to take advantage of its forklift, forklift attachment and lifting equipment training sessions.

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Intralogistics expert Jungheinrich is using virtual reality (VR) to provide initial and further training for its after-sales service engineers across Europe. 

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The past year has seen a sharp rise in the numbers of fork lift truck operators taking conversion courses, according to Adam Smith, general manager of Association of Industrial Truck Trainers, an accrediting body for trainers of fork lift truck operators.

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Toyota Material Handling UK has confirmed that it will sponsor this year’s Fork Lift Truck Association’s National Forklift Safety Convention.

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The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) and RTITB, an accrediting body for workplace transport training, have announced a collaboration aimed at raising the standards of fork lift truck training in the UK.

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Teaming up with some of the UK’s leading companies from the warehouse, logistics and energy sectors, Fronius UK will be opening its doors to visitors on 21st November for an event focusing on maximising energy savings in the warehouse.

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Business standards company, BSI, has published Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 13, Code of practice for safety barriers used in traffic management within workplace environments with test methods for safety barrier impact resilience.

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With the growing popularity of insulated panels in modern construction, ISD Solutions, which recently completed a high bay energy-efficient cold storage warehouse extension for Turners (Soham), warns that poor awareness of product and installation standards can risk the safety of site personnel.

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UKWA – the United Kingdom Warehousing Association -  has announced January 2017 as the start date for its next Warehouse Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) training programme. Places at the event in the East Midlands are limited and those wishing to enrol are urged to do so as soon as possible.

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In collaboration with Logistics Learning Alliance (LLA), the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has developed and launched a new Warehouse Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC).

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Linde Material Handling celebrated the success of its apprenticeship programme at IMHX’s first Future Skills zone.

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BITA Academy, industry-led organisation that delivers apprenticeships in materials handling equipment (MHE) engineering, has announced that it will now be known as F-TEC (Forklift Training Engineering Centre).

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By entering your forklift operators in RTITB’s International Operator of the Year Competition 2016 you’ll gain an instant insight into their performance and knowledge, allowing you to identify risks to safety and efficiency in your business and target driver training to where it’s needed most.

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Lift truck training specialist, Mentor, believes that active operational observation is the key to creating sites that are safer, more productive and, ultimately, more profitable.

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The ForkAngles mast tilt indicator, available from Mentor, is designed to be easily retro-fitted to a counterbalance truck allowing the operator to accurately gauge when their forks are level without having to leave their truck, ask a colleague for assistance or use any other device. 

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To help companies deal with event-related retail ‘spikes’ such as Black Friday, Access Group has published a white paper – ‘Let technology tame your Black Friday beast’.

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