The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) and RTITB, the preferred regulatory body for workplace transport training, have announced a collaboration aimed at raising the standards of fork lift truck training in the UK.
By formalising their existing close working relationship, the two organisations hope to achieve a number of common goals, namely:
• Raising awareness of the logistics sector amongst a younger audience and promoting it as an attractive career path;
• Harnessing current and emerging technology to ensure accessibility to training for the modern, technology-driven audience;
• Promoting and supporting high standards of training and safety to minimise risk and accidents involving workplace transport.
James Clark, Secretary General of BITA, the trade body that represents fork lift truck manufacturers and suppliers, says: “Since its formation over 75 years ago, BITA has existed to ensure trucks produced and sold by our members are inherently safe to operate. By extension, we have also worked with our members to improve safe standards of operation; training is, of course, a very large part of that initiative.
“We have considered RTITB as a valuable partner in helping us to achieve higher standards of training for many years, and this new initiative formalises our existing arrangement into something more rigorous and tangible.
“BITA aims to support the industry in creating a younger, highly-trained workforce capable of competing at a global level, and we view RTITB as the ideal partner to help us achieve this.”
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