I am very fortunate to be working for a 3PL Supply Chain company that treats safety as a top priority. We have our own training section/department dedicated to providing the best and most up to date training solutions to each of our employees, and a huge part of our success is that our facility managers and supervisors across the country have bought into the safety of our employees. The head of our training program has a Doctorate's Degree and we all have the opportunites to stay on top of safety and training issues by attending workshops from State to National Safety Councils. ALL of our new hires that will be LTO's must go through our company LTO training program, no matter how long they have been an LTO previously. We are not trying to tell anyone they do not know how to operate a lift truck, we are instructed them and showing them the proper safety procedures that we expect at our facilities. After a 20 year carreer in the military I started working for my curent employer in 1993 and feel I am very fortunate to be a part of this company and I take my position very serious. I am involved with training new hires to conducting Train The Trainer courses for the trainers that we currently have from New Jersey to California and from Wisconsin down to Texas, and I stay in contact with the trainers constantly. As no 2 facilites are the same we are currently initating a new program designed to fit a need at a specific facility and we will be putting in place a new Mentoring program that is only going to enhance both safety training and work output at this facility and we could not have done this without the management realizing the need for this. So we work with the management down to the freshly new hire throughout our company and we beilieve we have a safety and training program second to none. We have actually created our own rail safety training video, so you see we enjoy doing what we do.
We do not have to deal with..."HOW MUCH DOES IT COST" aspect, we just justify it and "WE GET IT COMPLETED"
There are a few of you on here that I communicate with occassionally and I truly appreciate the professional relationship that I have developed over the years and the information that has been passed on. We as professional trainers really do need to look out and assist each other whenever we can and remember that everyone that comes into these forums whether it is often, or just an occassional jump in to make a comment session are all here for the same reason and that is trying to finds ways to create a safer working environment.

SAFETY - A SMALL INVESTMENT FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE!