Raising awareness of the risks associated with fork lift operation and improving safety is the Fork Lift Truck Association's key objective. As such, we would welcome any co-ordination with our colleagues across the globe.

Our next safety awareness month (Safetember) will be our 10th. Through this, as well as our collaboration with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), Great Britain's workplace regulator for work-related health and safety, we have developed what is possibly the largest collection of dedicated fork lift safety resources: from simple fact-sheets to in-depth programmes for those overseeing safety.

We welcome any opportunity to discuss a global initiative further with our colleagues in Australia, the US and elsewhere. And perhaps we might be able to tempt them along to our National Fork Truck Safety Conference on Wednesday 20th September 2017. I'm sure the Association, and our delegates from across Europe, would benefit from hearing their experiences and best practices.

If it means anything I will come down there to help you observe National Forklift Safety Day always wanted to go to Australia.
But on a more serious side I think that there should be a world wide safety week to bring more attention to how important it is to have trained operators and nut just put someone on a forklift just because they can drive a car.
I also think that there needs to be more emphasis to safety on the service side. Just because you can work on a car does not mean that you have the ability to work on a forklift. I see numerous posts on here, and just by the way they are written or admitted to by the poster, that they are not trained to work on a forklift. One of the main excuses I see is a company does not want to spend the money to bring in someone who is trained. There is a reason companies bill at the rates they do because of the cost of sending tech's to training so that they are certified and are not going to mess something up that is going to get someone hurt or killed.