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Forklift Inspections

I wanted to know what system you have in place to ensure your drivers carry out a pre-use inspection of their FLT? How do you know it has been carried out and how do you know it is done pre-use (rather than backdated in a batch when an audit is due)?
  • Posted 23 Oct 2009 20:54
  • Discussion started by goodtogosafety
  • Fife, United Kingdom
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Interesting!
  • Posted 2 Nov 2009 21:35
  • Reply by dan_m
  • Ontario, Canada
In the UK the awarding bodies were very specific when the term "pre shift" check was changed to "pre use check". Each check by each person has to be recorded.
Certainly in the UK you can not rely on someone else checking a machine for your safety - each user is responsible for their own safety.
  • Posted 2 Nov 2009 19:22
  • Reply by MaxaM60
  • Bristol, United Kingdom
Instructor, ITSSAR Cat' 4 Tutor
I am a professional trainer. The pre-shift inspections are just that. Pre-shift. One shift per day...1 inspection per day.

If multiple users are on the same truck daily, let's say, then one is assigned to do the inspection that day, and each subsequent driver, does not. By leaving a copy of the check sheet on the truck, all the users know that it has been completed. Unless the supervisor is strict enough to expect the pre shift inspection on time, no excuses, then everyone knows for sure that it has been done.
  • Posted 26 Oct 2009 20:39
  • Reply by dan_m
  • Ontario, Canada
Do you have multiple users of the same truck? If so, does each user complete a check before using it, or do they assume that the guy before them did it? Is there anything that visually inidcates that the first user completed the inspection?
  • Posted 26 Oct 2009 18:15
  • Reply by goodtogosafety
  • Fife, United Kingdom
Daily check sheets turned in in am. and checked off with the sign-in-sheet. Info on check sheets is not specified by all, the same. At my company (corporate) they don't ask about motor oil.....Duh. But they do ask you to sign it...
  • Posted 25 Oct 2009 13:31
  • Reply by TradeShowDave
  • California, United States
When doing th circle checks, do it carbonless, making 2 copies. 1 to the supervisor and the second stays on the truck for the day. That way, everybody who runs that truck will appreciate that the check has been completed!
  • Posted 24 Oct 2009 04:04
  • Reply by dan_m
  • Ontario, Canada

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