Counterbalance forklift – Forklift trucks
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Awarding Body:
SQATraining course type:
Level 2 Certificate in Plant Operations (Construction). Work-place on-site assessmentNovice training course duration:
Up to 1 year to complete all NVQ unitsCard options:
5-year NPORS CSCS competent operator blue card. 5-year CPCS CSCS competent operator blue cardMinimum age:
16Restrictions:
Workplace experience using counterbalance forklifts. CITB test for operatives with in 24 monthsInstructor:
Bertie Tupper & Tuppco assessors
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The candidate will be assessed on NVQ units relating to health and safety and machinery operation by means of
- Observation
- Questions
- Demonstrations
- Professional discussion
- Witness testimonies
Assessment criteria
Mandatory core NVQ units:
- Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace
- Preparing and operating industrial forklift trucks to lift and transfer loads in the workplace
Venue and equipment requirements
- Suitable and safe area to lift and lower loads
- Palletised loads (IBC containers or similar)
- Lorry bed or flatbed trailer
- Varying terrain and slopes
- Suitable and safe area to complete paperwork
- Suitable welfare facilities
- Industrial counterbalance lift truck and attachments
- Operators’ manual
- Risk assessment completed
- In date thorough test examination for machine
PPE Requirements
- Suitable head protection
- Suitable eye protection
- Suitable work clothes including wet weather
- Gloves
- Suitable work boots including steel toe protection
- High Viz
On-site NVQ assessments delivered
Southwest – Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Avon, Somerset, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Southeast – Oxfordshire, Kent, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex
Midlands – Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire
East Anglia – Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk
Aylesbury, Banbury, Basingstoke, Bath, Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cirencester, Cheltenham, Coventry, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hungerford, Milton Keynes, Newbury, Northampton, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Reading, Salisbury, Southampton, Stroud, Swindon, Taunton, Warwick, Winchester, Witney, Worcester, Yeovil
What is a counterbalance forklift?
The counterbalance forklift features two forks at the front and has the ability to drive up close to a load to pick it up and move it. The name comes from the counterweight in the rear of the vehicle. This is to compensate for the heavy load being lifted at the front