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Toyota’s safety campaign ‘Taking Care with Toyota’ expands during September
to include a chance to win places on their Toyota Production System (TPS)
training courses. During FLTA Safety Week, 24-30 September, readers can
enter the prize draw to win one of eight available places and the first 100
entrants will be sent the brand new Toyota Forklift Safety Poster and a copy
of the recently released Toyota Forklift Safety Guide.
Grant Taylor, Quality and Safety Manager, Toyota Material Handling UK
commented: "Although there have been improvements in the numbers of forklift
truck related accidents, the numbers are still high enough to cause concern.
Safety is a main concern for Toyota and all of our equipment is developed
with safety in mind. As a distributor of materials handling equipment and
partner to our customers, we feel that it is important that we help decrease
the risk of accidents as much as possible."
The Toyota Training Academy works with hundreds of forklift operators per
year, working with people of all standards from novice to trainer and can
adapt courses for those based at one of the Toyota Material Handling UK
depots or those to be carried out on a customer site. The Training Academy
also works with others involved within different areas of business on
related courses; Manual Handling, Safety for Supervisors and the Toyota
Production System.
Grant added: "A key area for the campaign Taking Care with Toyota has been
the development, production and free distribution of free resources which
aim to decrease the risk of accidents across business operation. All of the
resources that we have produced this year available from our website, our
newest resource, the Toyota Forklift Safety Poster, has been specially
produced for this week.
As the newest free resource the Toyota Forklift Safety Poster has been
launched especially for National Forklift Safety Week highlighting 25 simple
and useful tips for working safely with forklift trucks.
To enter the exclusive safety week competition and be entered into the draw
for a place on one of our courses visit www.toyota-forklifts.co.uk and tell
us what safety risk is highlighted on the picture.
Three entrants will win one of eight places on our TPS training course and
the first 100 entrants will be sent a copy of the Toyota Forklift Safety
Guide and the new Toyota Forklift Safety Poster.
For more information on Taking Care with Toyota or training courses from the
Toyota Material Handling UK Training Academy or to speak to a team member
about your company’s needs visit www.toyota-forklifts.co.uk
