Forklift Training Waterloo
Trust Wayco for the best forklift training Waterloo has to offer including new operator and operator refresher training, lockout/tagout, WHMIS, battery training program and more!
Forklift Training Waterloo: Contact Wayco
Wayco Multi-Lift Contact Information
Address: 30 Adam Ferrie Pl, Kitchener, ON N2E 2K6
Hours: Mon to Fri 7:30am to 4:30pm
Phone: (519) 748-5440
Come to Wayco for the best forklift training Waterloo provides
Forklift Training Waterloo
Wayco offers a wide selection of forklift training courses, taught by highly trained and experienced instructors. To learn more about each course, click on the links below.
If you have little or no previous forklift experience, then our new forklift operator course if for you. This comprehensive program includes both a written and a practical component and assessments to validate your training competencies.
Our trainers will provide you with the most up-to-date legislative information including recent CSA-B335-15 standard changes.
You can take this course in our training facility or we can come to you - whichever you prefer. The course will be presented through multimedia presentations, interactive discussions, workbooks, and supplementary handouts.
The topics covered in this course include:
Lift truck (forklift) hazards
Lift truck (forklift) design and classifications
Pre-operational checks (theory and practical)
Standards, regulations, and responsibilities
Fuel Sources
Stability
Safe operating procedures
You will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.
According to CSA legistlation B335-15, every forklift operator needs to be re-certified every 3 years. If you have experience operating a forklift and are looking to get the best refresher forklift training Waterloo has around, contact Wayco.
Our Operator refresher course will help you enhance and improve your forklift operation skills. It will also reiterate the importance of maintaining your safety techniques and adhering to safe forklift driving and operating rules, regulations and guidelines.
The course will be equally divided between hands-on practical training and classroom instruction. We will provide you with a certificate upon completion of your training.
You need a written record of completion including your name, the date of your training, the forklift classification and the name of your trainer to show OHSA.
Don't worry if you have lost your certificate, Wayco keeps a record of all of your training and can provide you with another copy.
Wayco's Elevated Working Platform training will provide you with the skills needed to safely use, inspect, and operate aerial platforms. It will highlight the various hazards associated with the use of this type of equipment.
It is a comprehensive evaluation of many different hoisting mechanisms including:
Elevated working platforms
Genie boom
Man lifts
Bucket lifts
Boom lifts
During the training, you will learn about responsibilities, devices, operating controls, personal protective equipment, as well as rescue and operator safety.
*Please note that this course is NOT a replacement for the required Working at Heights training course for construction workers. The Ministry of Labour requires all workers on construction projects who use fall protection devices to take an approved working at heights training program. You can learn more about these regulations here.
The Canadian Safety Association requires that all employees who are around and handling batteries in your facility must be properly trained on how to safely use and move batteries with the appropriate equipment.
Our experienced trainers will come to your location and hold a two hour Battery training program that includes both hands-on practical applications and a comprehensive theoretical test. This course will cover the following topics:
Introduction to the Battery
Daily Maintenance Practices
Battery Transfer Procedures
Battery Charging and Equalizing Charge
Battery Watering
Using a Hydrometer
Emergency Procedure in case of Acid Spill
Each participant will receive a certificate upon completion of the course.
Lockout/tagout is a safety procedure that ensures dangerous machines are properly shut off and not able to be started again until they have been properly serviced. It is part of the comprehensive list of forklift training Waterloo has available,
Wayco provides a lockout/tagout training course that will give instruction and supervision to your workers on proper lockout procedures for each piece of equipment they will be operating. Your workers will learn the following steps as part of their training:
To shut down, isolate, block, & secure machine
Safely place, remove, & transfer of lockout/tagout devices
To test machine & verify energy is locked out
Identify responsible person for lockout/tagout
WHMIS stands for Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System and is a comprehensive plan for giving your workers essential information about the safe use of hazardous materials in the workplace.
Wayco's WHMIS course will include:
Chemical labeling standards included in the Occupational Health and Safety Act and WHMIS Regulation 860
Globally harmonized system (GHS) of classification and labeling of Chemicals
Rules and label requirements
Formats for safety data sheets
An overview of hazard groups and classes
Product specific procedures for safe use, storage, handling and disposal of a hazardous product
What to do in an emergency situation
An essential but often overlooked part of forklift training Waterloo, is learning how to properly handle a propane tank.
Wayco's Propane Cylinder Exchange training will not only teach you how to safely change a propane cylinder on your forklift but also how to inspect for a propane leak.
The course will teach you how by learning to smell the distinct odour, hearing a hissing noise, and seeing frost accumulate in the area of the leak.
You will also learn how to safely store your tanks and how to handle an emergency situation. You will also be taught the legal requirements surrounding propane use and penalties relating to propane compliance.
If you like, you can combine your forklift training with the forklift propane cylinder safety training course.
Wayco's Fall Arrest Training program will give you a better understanding of your responsibilities when you are working in places where fall hazards exist. Our course will cover the following topics:
Basic safety training for working at elevations
Applicable safety legislation and standards and when fall protection is required
Personal fall arrest system and safety net installation
Components of a safety walk-around checklist
How to perform a hazard assessment as well as rescue and escape planning
Fall protection systems and how and why falls can happen
Pre-use inspection of safety equipment and the different types of anchors
How to inspect and adjust a harness and how to use fall protection equipment
*Please note that this course is NOT a replacement for the required Working at Heights training course for construction workers. The Ministry of Labour requires all workers on construction projects who use fall protection devices to take an approved working at heights training program. You can learn more about these regulations here.
When an accident occurs between a forklift and a pedestrian, the injuries are usually very serious. That's why Pedestrian Awareness Training is so important.
Pedestrian training will cover the basic hazards related to forklifts as well as the rules that you need to follow to keep you and others around you safe.
Forklift Training Waterloo
Manufacturing has always been a big part of the Waterloo Region and it continues to grow even today.
The Waterloo region is home to more than 1,850 manufacturing companies in various sectors including automotive, aerospace, robotics, food processing, plastics, and fabricated metals.
In fact, manufacturing is the largest industry in the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo area. Because of this, there are many forklifts and lifting devices in use in the area.
This means that many of these industries also require the most effective forklift training Waterloo has to offer. If you need forklift training for your company, contact the forklift training experts at Wayco today.
"Exceptional quality and service. Left the training class with more than I expected. Looking forward to being a repeat customer; good thorough training class."
- Kevin
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Wayco Also Sells Top Quality New and Used Forklifts
If you are looking for top quality forklifts, contact Wayco. We sell the best forklifts you can buy and our knowledgeable staff will be able to help you choose the perfect model that will best suit your particular applications.
We will be happy to answer all of your questions and we can even provide top-notch safety training for your operators. Contact Wayco today for all of your forklift needs.
