Forklift Training To Ensure A Better Workplace Environment

Forklift or simply the industrial trucks is a heavy vehicle and it involves risk in driving them without training.

• According to the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada(AWCBC), 951 deaths have been taken place in the year 2017.
• It shows an increase of 46 percent from the year 2016.
• 31,441 of them are young workers aged between
• Lost time claim is 251,625. It means the number of workers who are absent for more than 8 days due to injury and receive compensation on that.
• It also talks about incidents which are reported. If taken into account unreported accidents the number would go higher.

This increasing rise of accidents causes the making of Forklift training in Ottawa mandatory for all workplaces. It became the duty of the employer to arrange training for his employees to avoid any mishap in the workplace. Benefits:

• Fewer injuries in the workplace
• The employer can save himself from compensation issues and enable better productivity.
• Safe working environment
• This helps workers to receive training at free of cost

Companies prefer to recruit trained candidates so that

• They can immediately start working and contribute to increasing productivity.

The requirement of every company is different. But the employers want the candidates at least know the basic skills in driving so that they can be easily given further training according to the requirements of the company.