Posted By Booney Hi All, We currently have about 40 trained FLT drivers on site and we are looking at our options for FLT training for which I am pushing to try and get one or two of our employees trained as in-house FLT instructor(s). I think this would be cost effective and best practice however, in order to get a balanced, all-round viewpoint, can I ask for your opinions/experiences of this please?

Posted By Simon Dean Hi Bonney We have about 50 MHE in operation on our site, ranging from FLT's, Reach Truck to LLOP's. We have our own on site instructors and find that this is very beneficial and cost effective. If you consider that apart from the initial training you also have regular refresher training to consider, we also retrain operators if they have been involved in an accident. So having our own trainers makes this easy and cost effective. Another big advantage of having in-house trainers is that they can tailor their training to reflect the environment that the operators will be working in and can include risks specific to your site rather than just the standard training they would get for an external source. Also any staff that we take on who already have a valid Flt licence, will receive an assessment on site prior to being let loose. This is a good way to prove that they are still competent and to make them aware of the site specific MHE rules! I hope i have been of some help! Simon

Posted By Martin Devlin Simon, I was interested in your cost effective solution and having in house trainers. I would like to take it forward in my own company. I was just wondering when drivers are competent - does the Trainer issue a certificate / card and if so do your Trainers have to be registered with an organisation in order to issue these.Many thanks

Posted By Chris Pope Please email me I may be able to help clp@taunton83.freeserve.co.uk