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