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Workplace Transport Safety Training

Course Name: Workplace Transport Safety – General Induction for all Drivers
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Course Duration: 20+ minutes

Workplace Transport includes vehicles such as forklift trucks, side loaders and reach trucks, as well as road-going vehicles operated on site. These vehicles present significant risks and result in numerous accidents and incidents each year. As such, employers have a legal duty to ensure staff who work with transport are appropriately trained.

This workplace transport safety training course works through a series of essential principles that anyone who operates a vehicle for work purposes must understand. It also looks at tips for implementing these principles to improve safety for occupational drivers.

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Workplace Transport Safety Training Course Certificate
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Course Details

Course Duration 20+ minutes
Approval body IIRSM
Format Fully online
Assessment Multiple choice
Certification Same-day digital certificate
Certificate Valid For 3 years

Suitable For

Forklift Operators

Warehouse Workers

Site Managers

Health and Safety Officers

Delivery Drivers

Logistics Coordinators

Course Content

This course contains the following sections:

  • What Is Workplace Transport?
  • Principle 1: Make Sure You Are Fit & Competent
  • Principle 2: Observe Site Rules & Maintain a Safe Site
  • Principle 3: Make Sure the Vehicle is Suitable & Safe
  • Principle 4: Operate the Vehicle Safely
  • Principle 5: Watch Out for Pedestrians
  • Workplace Transport Safety Tips

What You Will Learn

Nature of the hazard workplace transport hazards

How accidents involving workplace transport may occur

Safety principles for workplace transport activities

Workplace transport safety tips to undertake transport operation safely

Available in 13 Languages

Course subtitles are available in multiple languages, including:

French

Dutch

German

Italian

Spanish

Polish

Course Approval Body

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Approved by IIRSM

This course is approved by the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management (IIRSM).

The course certificate includes:

  • User name
  • Company name
  • Course name
  • Completion date
  • Expiry date
  • Approval body

An IIRSM-approved certificate will be available for download and printing instantly upon course completion.

Users must complete an assessment before earning their certificate.

The end-of-course test is:

  • Fully online
  • Multiple choice

A score of 80% is required to pass.

Workplace Transport Safety Training Course Certificate

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Why Is Workplace Transport Safety Training Important?

Every year nearly 5,000 workplace transport accidents are reported, and around 50 of these result in fatalities, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This accounts for around 10% of non-fatal injuries and nearly 20% of fatal injuries.

Employers have a legal, moral and financial duty to protect the health and safety of anyone that may be affected by workplace transport on site. A part of these duties is appropriately assessing the risk of the workplace transport on site and provided an appropriate level of training to control for that foreseeably control for that risk.

About Workplace Transport Safety Training

Those who operate with or near workplace transport are at risk of collisions and crashes, falls from vehicles, overturning, vicinity hazards, and noise and vibration. This online course is designed to ensure employees are adequately aware of the hazards they face from workplace transport. It provides them of an understanding of the systems in place to protect them and their role in adhering to those safety controls.