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WELCOME FROM THE AITA

Mr. Gavin Pringle


Acting President – Australian
Industrial Truck Association
Safety Seminar
June 2013

Australian Standards

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Australian Standards AS2359 – Powered Industrial Truck

AS2359 Series of Standards


Comprised of 19 Parts

Main Design Part of Main Part for Users


Standard AS 2359.2 - 2013
AS 2359.1 - 1995 Part 1: Part 2: Operation
General Requirements AS4973 - 2001
(6 Parts) Stability
Main Safety Part of Standard’s
AS2359.3 AS2359.4
Standard AS2359.8 AS2359.17
AS 2359.6 - 2013 Part 6: AS2359.18 AS2359.19
Safety Code AS4972 - 2001
ISO/TS3691.8
(9 Parts) Various
Flameproof Part of Standard’s
Standard AS2359.5 AS2359.7
AS 2359.12 - 1996 Part 12: AS2359.9 AS2359.10
Hazardous Areas AS2359.11 AS2359.13
AS1915 - 1992 AS2359.14 AS2359.15
AS2359.16

New Draft Scheduled for Revision Plan to replace with ISO


AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation

SIX SECTIONS
• SCOPE AND GENERAL
• RULES FOR OPERATION
• MODEL OPERATING PROCEEDURES
• PROCEEDURES FOR PARTICULAR TRUCKS
• PROCEEDURES COVERING SITE
CONDITIONS
• MAINTENANCE REPAIR AND
MODIFICATION
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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 1 – Scope And General

New & Revised Definitions


• Actual capacity (Q)
• Alternative capacity
• Rated Capacity
• 60J-line
• Hard, flat, level surface
• Induction training
• Model operating procedures
• Unattended truck
• Competent Person
• Low Level Order Picker
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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 2 - Rules for Operation

Qualification of
Operators
• Absence of any medical
condition
• High risk work license.
• Training
• Sufficient skills and
knowledge.
• Record of authorized
operators
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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 3 - Model Operating
Procedures

• Capacity Knowledge
• Load Support

• Pre – Operating
Checks
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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 3 - Model Operating
Procedures

WORK PLATFORMS
• User Requirements
• Operator Requirements
• shall not be used for
– order picking,
– production or stores (administrative) types of
activity such as stocktaking

• Electric lift height limits are not permissible

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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 3 - Model Operating
Procedures

General Rules
for Operators
• Seat Belt
• Mobile Phone
• Under Influence

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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 3 - Model Operating
Procedures

Tip Over
• Counterbalance
• Reach Trucks –
Stand up & Sit Down
• Non - tipover

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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 4 – Procedures For
particular Trucks

Elevating
Operator
• Harness & lanyard
• Two man
• Low level order -
picker

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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 4 – Procedures For
particular Trucks

Freight
Container
Handling
• Travelling
• Operation
• Container Handling
in Container Yards

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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 5 – Procedures Covering
Site Conditions

• Hazardous Area

• Pedestrian Access

• Lighting
(< 40 lx, < 80 lx)
• Atmospheric Pollution
• Guards
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AS2359.2 - 2013 Part 2: Operation – Section 5 – Procedures Covering
Site Conditions

• Inclines
(Refer AITA Bulletin – AITA – 0009)

• Mezzanine Floors
• Loading Docks

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AS2359.2 – 2013 – Section 6 Maintenance, Repair And Modification

MODIFICATION
shall not be modified in any way that will affect operation or performance
within the scope of this standard

SERVICING

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Thank You
TRAINING IMPLICATIONS

Todd Brennan – Forkpro


Australia
TRAINED LICENCED
What is a HRW Licence
• Heard the term?

• Name given to the culled


list of equipment operating
licences.

• Previously Certificate of
Competence.
What does need a HRWL?
• Currently 29 Classes of High
Risk Work Licence.
“High Risk Work”
• Key points.
• Bring all current licences up to
renewable photo type.
• Standardise classes nationally.
• Standard ‘secure’ national photo
licence card.
• Introduction of ‘VET’ system
for training/licencing under
regulated training units.
Culled?
• Certain licences no longer
required.

• E.g Earthmoving licences


VET system
• Training now regulated and must be delivered by
RTO.

• Must enrol prior to commencing training.

• On-the-job training may form part but not all the


training (under training plan).

• Must be trained against the approved UoC.

• Licence assessment only after completing


training.
VET System
• Logbooks

• VET Sector training


Process
• Enrolment with an RTO.

• Training to the prescribed Unit of Competence

• TLILIC2001A – Licence to operate a forklift

• TLILIC2002A - Licence to operate an order


picking forklift
Process
• Prepare for assessment.

• RTO arranges an authorised licence Assessor


to undertake licence assessment (using the
mandated assessment tool).

• Apply for the licence to be issued via Auspost


outlet.
Process

On-the Pre Licence


Enrol Course
-job assess test

Cannot operate equipment prior to enrolment.


Trainees must be 18 years of age to take licence
assessment.
What does LF and LO mean?
• A series of licenes still remain in the Loadshifting
group (L)

• (F) Forklift. .i.e. LF

• (O) Order Picking Forklift i.e. LO


Definitions
• Vic. Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2007.

• Schedule 3 Definitions…..

• fork-lift truck means a powered industrial truck equipped with a mast


and an elevating load carriage to which is attached a pair of fork
arms or other loadholding attachment,including a truck on which the
operator is raised with the attachment for order-picking, but does not
include a pedestrian operated industrial truck.

• order-picking fork-lift truck means a powered industrial truck of the


type where the operator's control arrangement is incorporated with the
load carriage or lifting media, and elevates with it
I’m licenced now!
Other responsibilities
• Must maintain competence!
• Skills.
• Knowledge.
• Ability.

Employer is responsible to ensure


this happens.
• Training on particular equipment.

• WHS ACT Section…21 (2) (e) Provision of


information, training and instruction.
• 21. Duties of employers to employees
• (1) An employer must, so far as is reasonably
• practicable, provide and maintain for employees
• of the employer a working environment that is
• safe and without risks to health.
• Penalty: 1800 penalty units for a natural person;
• 9000 penalty units for a body corporate.
• (2) Without limiting sub-section (1), an employer
• contravenes that sub-section if the employer fails
• to do any of the following—
• ………

• (e) provide such information, instruction,


• training or supervision to employees of the
• employer as is necessary to enable those
• persons to perform their work in a way that
• is safe and without risks to health.
• s. 21
• Training on particular equipment.

• WHS Regulation

• Part 2.1 – General duties


• 2.1.2 Provision of information, instruction and training
• (1) If these Regulations require an employer to control
any particular risk, the employer must provide each
employee of the employer who may be exposed to the
risk with sufficient information, instruction and training
in relation to the following matters as are necessary to
enable the employee to perform his or her work in a
manner that is safe and without risks to health—
• (a) the nature of the hazard giving rise to the risk; and
• (b) the need for, and the proper use and maintenance of,
measures to control the risk.
• Notes
• 1 Act compliance—section 21 (see regulation 1.1.7).
• 2 Section 21 of the Act also places obligations on an employer in relation to supervision.

• (2) The obligation imposed by subregulation (1) is


in addition to any other obligation imposed on the
employer by these Regulations in relation to the
provision of information, instruction and training.
• Training on particular equipment.

• WHS Regulation

• Part 3.5 - Plant


• 3.5.45 Information, instruction and training

• (1) This regulation applies in addition to the


requirements of regulation 2.1.2.
• (2) This regulation applies if a hazard related to plant
• and its associated systems of work is identified under
regulation 3.5.23.
• (3) The employer must ensure that employees likely
• to be exposed to the risk, and any person supervising
the employees, are trained and provided with
information and instruction in—
• (a) the processes used for hazard identification and control
of risk; and
• (b) the safety procedures associated with the use of the
plant at the workplace; and
• (c) the use, fit, testing and storage of personal protective
equipment, if personal protective equipment forms part of
the risk control measures.
AS2359 Part 2 - 2013
• Section 2.1 Qualification of operators.

• Section 2.2 Training of operators

• Section 2.3 Authorisation of operators.

• Section 2.4 Operating procedures


AS2359 Part 2 - 2013
• “Ongoing” Refresher Training “Should not
exceed 5 years”.

• Verification of Competence (VoC).

• Plans

• Records

• Details

• Copies
Codes of Practice
Implications for the
employer

?
• The accused pleaded guilty to two charges pursuant to sections
21(1) and 21(2)(a) and (e) of the Occupational Health and
Safety Act 2004 in that it failed to provide or maintain systems
of work that were, so far as reasonably practicable, safe and
without risks to health and failed to provide a safe working
environment.

• The charges arose from an incident involving the lack of


adequate traffic management systems to separate mobile plant
from pedestrians, and a lack of training and supervision with
regard to traffic management. Employees would routinely stand
in close proximity to the operating forklift when stocktaking.
•  
• On 20 July 2012, a worker was injured when struck by a forklift,
trapping the worker between the forklift and the storage unit.

• On 17 September 2013, the accused was sentenced, without


conviction, to pay a fine of $30,000 and costs of $8787.00.
(Moorabbin Magistrates' Court). 
• On 24 April 2012, a deemed employee delivery driver was injured
as a result of being struck by a forklift.

• The accused pleaded guilty to one charge pursuant to sections


21(1) & 21(2)(e) of the OH&S Act 2004 for failing to provide
adequate information, instruction and training to employees
in relation to ensuring that employees understood the need
to establish and maintain a clearly designated and bollarded
exclusion zone from the working forklift.

• On 23 April 2013, the accused was fined $15,000, without


conviction with costs in the sum of $4,840.00. (La Trobe Valley
Magistrates' Court).
• On 27 October 2009, a worker was injured as a result of falling
approximately 1.8 metres from a timber pallet which was
positioned on the elevated tynes of a forklift.

• …………… pleaded guilty to two charges pursuant to sections


21(1) and 21(2)(a) & 21(2)(e) of the OHS Act 2004.

• On 19 April 2012 the company was convicted and fined $100,000


and ordered to pay costs in the sum of $3,572.52. (Dandenong
Magistrates' Court)
• The accused is a company that manufactures cleaning products.
On 8 August 2012 a forklift pinned the injured person between
the forklift load and a truck.

• The incident was reported to WorkSafe on 9 August 2012, when


a WorkSafe Inspector issued an Improvement Notice directing
the accused to address the risks of powered mobile plant mobile
colliding with pedestrians or other mobile plant, with a compliance
date of 23 August 2012.

• The Inspector re-attended the workplace on various occasions to


follow up on the Notice, which was deemed to be complied on 19
October 2012. The accused pleaded guilty to one offence under
OHS Regulation 3.6.2, and one offence under each of Sections
21(1) and (2)(a) & (2)(e), and 23 of the OHS Act 2004. On 7
August 2013 it was convicted and fined $30,000 and ordered to
pay costs of $3,584.
Implications for the
employee

What if we train them and


they leave?

What if we don’t train


them and they stay?
Thank you

Todd Brennan – Forkpro


Australia
Cultural Change in the
use of Forklifts in the
workplace

Mr. Wayne Skinner – WorkSafe


Victoria
AFTER THE BREAK
Traffic Management Plans - Anthony Keating, Crown
Equipment.
 
Attachments & the New Standard – Glenn Anderson,
Bolzoni Auramo.
 
Legal Issues – Sam Jackson, Lawyer, K&L Gates.
 
 Q&A Panel - All Speakers.

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