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That's fine Dan

Keep up your passion.

Aussies are a lot like Canadians - both live in big countries with not much population - your country has a very cold "desert" area; and ours has a very hot desert area.

My biggest concerns are that the operators I retrain a) don't know the capacity of their forklift if you ask them b) often have clipboards inslalled over the load plate and/or ilegible load plates and/or load plates that do not show the capacity of the forklift with its attachments, and c) they don't know the weight of what they are lifting because it's not marked with a weight in any way.

Makes one beleive that most training is totally ineffective when they don't follow the most basic rule to check the capacity of the forklift and check the weight of the load before you lift it
  • Posted 24 Nov 2007 11:55
  • By John_Lambert
  • joined 30 May'06 - 74 messages
  • Victoria, Australia
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