Forklift risks

Type of document: VR / AR tool

Country of origin: Spain

Issuing body/Authors: Ludus Global

CT: VR FOCUS: Formal education

Short description

VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING

Workplace Hazards Accident: Virtual reality for forklift risks

Forklift risks is a product created by created by Ludus Global, focused on training the capacity to detect hazardous situations in the workplace.

The trainee will witness different risk situations, as well as perform routine tasks on their own where risks may exist. There is an additional inspection task, where the learner must pass the inspection checklist of a forklift prior to its use.

This product includes risks related to PPE, general safety rules and instructions.

Forklift risks training objectives

 Identify risks

Learn about the most common risks in the use of forklift trucks and experience the consequences.

Prevent accidents

Observe how other workers deal with risk situation to prevent them in the future.

Practice

Practice the knowledge acquired in a completely safe environment.

Risk situations in an industrial scenario

  • Accident due to reversing without
  • Accident caused by not reversing when forward visibility is impaired by the load.
  • Accident caused by attempting to avoid an
  • Collision due to not slowing down or stopping at a crossing or
  • Forklift tips over when driving on a ramp and turning on the slope of the ramp.
  • Forklift tips over forward due to excessive
  • rash against a door and tipping over of forklift due to the mast being half-raised
  • Driver falls because he is not wearing a seatbelt and the forklift falls on the
  • Object falls on head due to leaning out of the forklift.
  • Collapse of
  • Person trapped due to excessive load and attempting to counterbalance it.
  • Use of

Inspection checklist

The learner must pass the inspection checklist of a forklift prior to its use. The goal is to familiarize the trainee with the checklist and the inspection of the machine and its components

Target groups

  • Schools and business who works in real workshops with forklift