Forklift Training

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14 courses

Equipment Training

A fundamental requirement to ensure employees have the necessary skills and competencies to operate the machinery you have on site. Acclaim Handling offer a vast range of materials handling and other equipment training for businesses and individuals.

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3 courses

Instructor Training

Quality Operator forklift truck instructor Training is critical. Accredited instructor training allows your employees to teach forklift training within your organisation, in-house to a recognised professional standard (RTITB).

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5 courses

Personnel Training

Quality personnel training is essential to ensure a safe working environment and that your workplace operates efficiently. Acclaim Handling provides training at all skill levels with full certification.

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1 course

First Aid Training

Our training sessions are held in small groups of up to 12 candidates, allowing us to provide personalised attention and ensure that each participant receives individualised instruction and guidance. We utilise cutting-edge training aids and equipment to create realistic scenarios...

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1 course

Mental Health Training

Mental health first aid courses are designed to provide individuals with the knowledge and skills to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health challenges or crises. These courses cover a range of topics, including anxiety, depression, psychosis, and...

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1 course

E-Learning Safety Training

Forklift truck safety awareness, delivered entirely online. This course covers the safety practices that matter most when operating and working around forklift trucks.

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RTITB accredited training provider

Forklift training and operator training, accredited and nationally recognised

Forklift training is what we have done longest and what we do most. Our instructors take complete beginners through to certification, bring experienced operators back up to date, and add new truck types for people who already hold a certificate. Every course ends in full, nationally recognised certification, so you hold documented evidence of training and assessment for your own records. It is what most people mean when they ask for a forklift licence.

Courses run at our RTITB accredited centres in Purfleet, Chatham and Cosham, or on your own site anywhere in the UK, on your own trucks and in the space your team actually works in. We are RTITB accredited, and RTITB is one of the accrediting bodies recognised by the HSE.

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RTITB accreditedNationally recognised certification
Three accredited centresPurfleet, Chatham and Cosham
Or at your siteAnywhere in the UK, on your own trucks
Novice to conversionFourteen equipment courses

Operator, instructor and workplace training

Forklift operator training

The core of what we do. Fourteen equipment courses, each available as a novice, refresher or conversion route, so an entire team can be brought up to standard together rather than piecemeal.

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Forklift instructor training

Train the people who train your operators. We run the full instructor course alongside re-certification for lapsed registrations and conversion for instructors adding a category.

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Workplace and personnel training

The training that surrounds the truck: the people loading it, directing it, inspecting it and supervising the operation.

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Forklift training near you: at our centres or on your own site

Our three RTITB accredited centres run scheduled courses throughout the year, and each centre's accreditation certificate is published on the course pages so you can check it for yourself.

Purfleet training centre Essex, RM15 4YD
Chatham training centre Kent, ME5 8RZ
Cosham training centre Portsmouth, PO6 3TJ

We also train on customer sites anywhere in the UK. Operators learn on the trucks they use every day, in the aisles and loading areas they actually work in, and you lose far less time to travel.

Our local pages give the nearest centre and the postcodes we cover for each area: forklift training by location.

Why trained and certificated operators matter

Lift trucks are among the most heavily regulated pieces of equipment on any site, and the responsibility for making sure the person driving one is competent sits with the employer. Certification is how that competence is evidenced: a course that ends in nationally recognised certification gives you a documented record of what each operator was trained on, when, and to what standard.

Refresher training keeps that record current, and conversion training covers you when an operator moves onto a truck type they were never assessed on. Both are far cheaper than the alternative.

Additional training we offer

Alongside the operator and instructor programmes, we run a small number of workplace courses that customers regularly ask us to deliver at the same time.

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Forklift training questions

Is forklift training certification nationally recognised?

Yes. We are an RTITB accredited training provider and our courses end in full, nationally recognised certification, so you have documented evidence of training and assessment for your own records.

Do I need a forklift licence?

There is no forklift licence in UK law. What the law requires is that operators are trained, assessed and authorised by their employer, and a certificate from an accredited course such as ours is how that training is evidenced. Our forklift licence guide explains exactly what is required.

Do I need previous experience to take a forklift course?

No. Our novice courses are built for candidates with no previous experience. You are trained to drive and maintain the truck, look after the battery, stack pallets and work safely in the space around you, then assessed at the end.

What is the difference between a novice, refresher and conversion course?

A novice course takes a candidate with no previous experience through to certification. A refresher brings an already certified operator back up to date. A conversion adds a different type of truck for an operator who is already trained.

Where does forklift training take place?

You have two options. Training runs at our RTITB accredited centres in Purfleet, Chatham and Cosham, or our instructors come to your own site anywhere in the UK and train your operators on your own trucks, in the space they actually work in.

What do we need in place to host training at our own site?

Three things: the appropriate equipment, a designated training area with racking and bulk stacking facilities, and a suitable area for the theory part of the course. If you are not sure whether your site qualifies, our team will talk it through with you.

Which types of truck can you train operators on?

Fourteen equipment courses in total, from counterbalance and reach truck through to very narrow aisle, telehandler, cherry picker and order picker. Every one runs as a novice, refresher or conversion route.

Book forklift training

Tell us the truck type, how many operators and where you are. We will come back with dates and a price.

Enquire about training

Working at height on a scissor lift or boom lift? Read our guide: do I need an IPAF card?

Forklift training near you

We train at our own centres and on your site, across the UK. Pick your area for the forklift training page there, the courses it covers and the nearest centre. New to it? Read how to get a forklift licence.

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Forklift Training

Equipment Training

Instructor Training

Personnel Training

First Aid Training

Mental Health Training

E-Learning Safety Training