Nowadays, thanks to health and safety rules, anyone who operates a forklift in Australia needs to obtain a High Risk Work Licence for forklift operations and a training certification. Your official certification usually involves classroom-based education plus hands-on forklift training before passing a theory and practical assessment.
Here at Nationwide Training, we offer both 2-day training courses and a 1-day forklift course right here in Perth for both beginners and experienced forklift drivers looking for a skills refresher.
Having a forklift operator licence not only means you are up to date with all the current health and safety regulations but that you can avoid workplace accidents thanks to comprehensive knowledge.
What Is Involved in Obtaining Your Forklift Operator’s Licence
Take A Verification Competency Assessment VoC
This is where we come in with our high-quality and professional training. You should take your forklift operators assessment with an approved registered training organisation like Nationwide Training.
Your competency assessment will be a practical assessment activity to ensure you have a full understanding on how to operate a forklift with supreme safety in mind.
Once you have completed your forklift operator course you will have to sit, and pass, a final assessment.
Complete Your WorkSafe National High Risk Work Licence Class LF Requirements
Some of the topics covered in a forklift operators training course are:
- Startup checks, Operational Checks and Shut Down Checks
- Hazard identification and Risk Assessment
- General safe operations and load handling
- OHS/WHS Legislation
Once you have completed your course and passed your assessment you will need to provide 100 points of evidence of your identity. These 100 points can be mounted up through the valid and current types of documents you provide as proof of identity eg Drivers Licence, passport, bank card, Medicare card etc.
Alongside these you will also need two passport photos, your application fee, and your WorkSafe WA Notice of Assessment and training certificate that will be issued by the RTO.
Note Nationwide Training offers complimentary passport photos and the processing of your High Risk Work application to WorkSafe which is included in the course fee.
Helping lift some of the stress that can come with official applications.
Nationwide Training has been W.A’s leading forklift operator training company thanks to our high-quality, professional and experienced educators. We highly recommend all forklift operators attend a full 2-day forklift course to obtain practical refresher training to meet current safety requirements.