What is a side loader:
Side loaders pick up their load laterally and are used for handling long loads such as wooden beams and pipes. The 4 wheels can be rotated 360° on certain models which makes the unit very maneuverable.
Content:
The training includes 3 hours of theory in group and 1 to 5 hours of practice per participant.
Theory:
- Legislation
- Know the basics of legislation for a side loader driver: ARAB, Codex, liabilities and responsibilities.
- Risks and accidents
- Be able to identify, analyze and control risks specific to the job and equipment and space.
- Safety regulations
- Knowing the safety regulations such as there are: direction of travel, braking for turn, distance between side loaders, use of safety cage, prohibition to take passengers, appropriate travel speed, regulations when coupling/disconnecting battery and in a loading station, travel height forks, position of mast according to load, changing a gas cylinder.
- Construction of side loaders
- To know terms related to the construction of the side loader: clearance height, free lift, clearance height, mast types, 4-wheel devices, turning radius and concept of “explosion-proof side loader”.
To know that there are different types of drives, with their fields of application: electric, diesel, gas.
To know how batteries can be changed. - Load and charge diagram
- Principle “load and ballast” of a side loader.
To know what factors affect the load and stability of the side loader. Understand and be able to use charge diagrams. - Working with the side loader
- Know the elements that make up the starting check: hand brake, foot brake, hydraulic system testing, sound horn check, visual tire check, steering play, chain tension, forks, fuel level.
Efficient driving. - Be able to describe warehouse infrastructure, main warehouse racking and internal transport equipment.
Types of carriers and pallets.
Hazard labels and handling labels.
Practice:
- Be able to perform daily side loader inspection correctly, recognize dangerous defects and report them.
- Apply correct mounting and dismounting technique and safely park the side loader.
- Be able to use the controls correctly.
- Be able to work with electric and thermal side loaders (LPG), 4-wheeler.
- Application of safety and traffic rules: defensive driving, interaction with people and other drivers.
- Be able to connect and disconnect batteries.
- Adopting a good driving technique: forward, backward.
- Be able to perform the following maneuvers: turning and cornering forward and backward, passing in very narrow passages.
- Be able to estimate distances, depth and height.
- Stacking goods in space with up to 0.5 meters – 1 meter clearance on turning radius, without using side-shift.
- Stacking in racks (pallet racking, cantilever racking) of goods at a height of 3.5 – 5 meters, without using side-shift.
- Be able to stack correctly at ground locations, in racking and at height and according to side loader capacity.
- Applying order and cleanliness.
- Be able to drive in specific conditions: inclined surfaces and narrow spaces.
- Be able to transport long, tall and bulky loads.
- Be able to work with at least 1 attachment
