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Rob Vetter is technical director and managing partner with the Ives Training Group, in Blaine, WA, USA, a leader in North American mobile equipment training systems since 1981.

This blogger has posted the following blog articles:

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Safety First - 12 Mar 2009 (#401)

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Stay the course Don't be tempted to cut training costs as the slowdown bites. Such a move may end up costing much more over time than it saves in the short tem.

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Safety First - 18 Dec 2008 (#391)

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Evaluating medical fitness Operators are required to meet certain physical requirements, but you can't expect your trainer to make fitness determinations.

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Safety First - 9 Oct 2008 (#381)

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If It Isn’t Written Down… It's not enough to do the right thing when it comes to training. You actually need to document what you do so you can prove it.

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Safety First - 4 Sep 2008 (#376)

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Do the Right Thing Faced with the tough decision of failing a trainee or being a 'good guy', trainers have an obligation to follow their head rather than their heart.

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Safety First - 15 May 2008 (#360)

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Training Is An Art – Not Science Experience counts and no matter how good the theory, without some hands-on experience, forklift training is questionable.

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Safety First - 27 Mar 2008 (#353)

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Breaking the Dysfunctional Training Cycle Operator training is not a one-off. It requires ongoing - and multi-disciplanary - commitment and broad-reaching responsibility.

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Safety First - 24 Jan 2008 (#344)

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It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Tailswing I have been asked too many times to return to a site after training has occurred, only to find that the forklift operations do not resemble anything that would suggest the operators have been properly trained.

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Safety First - 6 Dec 2007 (#339)

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Climate change – but this one is good I get reflective at this time of year as the sun sets on the waning days of the past year and dawns on the hopes and anticipations of the future. I like to look at what I did well and not so well to see if I can replicate the good stuff and eliminate or improve on the bad. It appears business and industry have been doing this as well because things seem to be getting better on the safety front.

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Safety First - 11 Oct 2007 (#331)

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Is the Right-of-Way Wrong? Most people can relate to both sides of the right-or-way argument - but not when they're behind the wheel or walking around!

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Safety First - 16 Aug 2007 (#323)

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Safety or Compliance: If You Have To Choose… Regardless of what the 'regs' say or do not say, whatever it is you are doing, you must do it as safely as possible.

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Safety First - 10 May 2007 (#309)

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It’s all good If you have trained a forklift operator or two in your time you can probably relate to the experience of seeing the emotional state of some trainees when they show up for training sessions. Often displaying signs ranging from utter apathy to immobilising fear, their state is usually due to the fact that they have been sent, usually against their will ...

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Safety First - 15 Mar 2007 (#301)

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One good apple You have probably heard the proverb 'one bad apple can spoil the barrel"' but have you seen the effect one good apple can have on the others? "Apples" are a metaphor for forklift operators and the "good" ones are those operators who take the time do their jobs safely and in accordance with their training.

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Safety First - 18 Jan 2007 (#293)

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Computer-based Training; a Contradiction in Terms Computer based training (CBT) programs, in spite of their often flashy graphics and cool soundtracks, cannot even begin to determine operational competence and I think everyone knows that including the producers of such programs.

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Safety First - 14 Dec 2006 (#290)

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‘Tis the Season Back in 1981 when I was an impressionable young man of 19, I lost a very near and dear friend to an industrial accident. He was electrocuted when he contacted live power lines while painting a building.

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Safety First - 16 Nov 2006 (#286)

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Seek first to understand…then kick some butt In these days of extreme political correctness, it is hard for trainers to define where the line is drawn between accommodating and offending. I recall a wonderful train-the-trainer program I was delivering in Kansas City, Missouri, and completely ruining it by letting slip a reference to the place of fire and brimstone where the Prince of Darkness dwells.

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