Overview:

• Designed for new and veteran employees
• Performance-based training puts your forklift operators face-to-face with real-life hazard scenarios and challenges them to respond quickly and correctly
• Features a unique "watch and react" approach that gets employees involved and teaches forklift hazard perception through a series of fast-paced visual encounters
• Shows trainees how to avoid common hazards relating to forklift safety:
  • Not using seatbelts
  • Moving forward with too large of a load
  • Driving with forks raised
  • Backing up without checking for pedestrians or obstructions
  • Cornering too fast
  • Passing other forklifts
  • Not checking inside a trailer before entering
  • And many more
• Ready-to-use training program includes several components
• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

Program Components

• (1) 50-Minute DVD - Combines engaging video and editing technology with expertise from industry professionals at all levels.
• (1) Trainer's Guide - Gives answers to the encounter scenarios and suggested comments to potential outcomes based on drivers' reactions.
• (10) Video Scenario Review Blanks - Use for drivers to fill in their answers to the on-screen questions.
• (11) Employee Skill Cards - includes perforated receipt page/training record.
• (10) Certificates of Completion

DVD Main Menu

• Play Program - Plays entire main program.
• Chapter Selections - Access chapters by topic.
  • Introduction - Explains what hazard perception is, how good hazard perception skills contribute to safe forklift operation, and how the video works (e.g., scenarios unfold on-screen; viewers will be challenged to spot the hazards within the scenario.)
  • Segments 1-3, Questions & Answers - Each of the 3 segments features 10 scenarios; each scenario is followed by a multiple choice or fill in the blank question. Answers for all the scenarios follow.
  • Conclusion - Reiterates the importance of hazard perception skills, following company safety and security guidelines and reporting hazards and threats.
• Quiz - 10 interactive questions; offers correct/incorrect remediation to reinforce effectiveness of training.
• Guidelines - Gives dos and don'ts and best practices information so trainees can apply the information to their jobs.

Producer: J.J. Keller