Telehandler Training Course 

The following subjects are covered in this training course:

• Roles and responsibilities of a plant operator

• Purpose of principal components

• Regulations and legislation

• Pre-use checks

• Configuring for travel on site and highway and all lifting, loading and transferring duties

• Travelling over rough and level surfaces

• Attach and remove various attachments

• Manoeuvring in limited spaces

• Following signals and instructions when travelling

• Actions required for proximity hazards

• Basic principles of slinging of loads

• Requirements for ensuring adequate ground support and stability

• Causes of instability during blocked, free-on-wheel and pick-and carry duties

• Lifting and placing various suspended and fork-mounted loads

• Minimise the swinging of suspended loads during travel

• Visibility issues and restrictions with suspended and fork-mounted loads

• Placing suspended loads out of sight of the operator

• Maintaining safe working situations and tidy working areas

• Carrying out shut down and securing procedures

• Loading and unloading procedures for machine transporting

• Theory Test

• Practical Test