Posted By Martin Taylor
I am carrying out a survey of site FLT drivers as a part of a site wide workplace transport risk assessment process.

I am concerned that there are far more 'licenced' drivers on site than actual operate at any one time with the result that many 'licenced' operators are not actually required to operate a machine on a regular basis - this leads to the concern that their skills and site knowledge becomes rusty.

Are there any rules of thumb for how often drivers should be operating to be considered regulars.

Similarly are there any rules of thumbs for a period of inactivity that should trigger a refresher program.

My proposals for refresher training and assessment are that:-
1)occasional drivers - every 3 years
2)permanent drivers - every 5 years
3) rare drivers - every 1 year

anybody not operating plant for more than 3 months to be declassified pending refresher

does anybody apply this sort of principle - how do you differentiate the various classes of driver

thanks

martin

Posted By Martin Taylor
thanks Gavin

is there anybody using a similar systems? what time frames do you follow

I'm thinking of introducing a 'probationary period' as well with a retest after 200 hours forklift operation. Anybody do anything like this - how well does it work?

Martin