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Transportation,
Warehouse & Logistics
Looking to begin a career in the transportation,
warehouse and logistics (TWL) industry, but you don’t
have the required experience needed to get the job?
Joliet Junior College is the answer.
Joliet Junior College has designed a warehouse operation
that provides real-life job training skills. Optimizing
a company’s operations is an exciting experience and
will bring positive changes to the workplace.
At Joliet Junior College, we take great pride in
delivering high-quality training programs, which are
designed to give the attendee the practical, hands-on
experience needed to obtain employment. These programs
will provide the skills you need to be successful. Our
instructors are highly-experienced facilitators. People
are one of the most valuable resources, and Joliet
Junior College can help you get the most out of your
investment and time.
Whether you choose to attend the general laborer,
picker/packer, commercial driver’s license (CDL)
training program, or the forklift driving course, we
will provide you with the knowledge needed to work
safely in a transportation, warehouse, and logistic
career.
Industrial Power Lift Truck
(Forklift) Training
Warehouse Operations Training for
Picker/Packers
Safety Training for General Laborer
What does
OSHA say about properly trained forklift drivers?
If you've ever had any doubts about the importance of
properly trained forklift drivers, the following
statistics should settle the question. According to the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, on average 100 workers
are killed and 20,000 are injured each year due to
forklift mishaps. The most common causes of fatalities
include:
- forklift overturns (22 percent),
- pedestrian worker struck by forklift (20 percent),
- driver or employee crushed by forklift (16 percent), and
- driver fall from forklift (9 percent).
Because of such dangers, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) governs powered industrial
truck safety under 29 CFR 1910.178. In 2005, citations
issued for violations of this standard ranked sixth
among OSHA's "Top Ten" violations. Last year OSHA cited
3,115 forklift-safety violations. The five most common
were:
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failure to ensure each operator is competent to safely
operate a powered industrial truck (568
violations),
- failure to certify that each operator has been trained
and evaluated (399),
- failure to take damaged powered industrial trucks out of
service (350),
- failure to provide refresher training and evaluation
(251), and
- failure to examine powered industrial trucks before
placing into service (242).
As OSHA's lists clearly show, avoiding accidents must be
a top priority for any shipper that operates a warehouse
or distribution center. Those lists provide one roadmap
for achieving compliance.
Joliet Junior College feels the same way. A top priority
within our training programs is to provide participants
with the knowledge to safely inspect and operate the
various lift trucks.
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