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Forklift and Powered Mobile Plant Safety Awareness
A practical, visual awareness course on staying safe around forklifts, order pickers, telehandlers and elevating work platforms. Learn how pedestrians and plant are kept apart, why loads tip over, how to refuel and charge safely and the special risks of working at height, through paced slides with diagrams, a real warehouse decision scenario and quick self-checks. This awareness training complements, but does not replace, the licence, verification of competency and site induction required to operate mobile plant.
Also relevant for: Farm and Rural, Construction and Trades, Manufacturing and Industrial, Retail and Hospitality, Warehouse, Transport and Logistics
What You Will Learn
- Recognise the main types of powered mobile plant, forklifts, order pickers, telehandlers and elevating work platforms, and the serious hazards each creates
- Explain why separating pedestrians from mobile plant is the most important traffic control, and identify practical separation measures
- Describe how a forklift's stability triangle, load centre and data plate determine what it can safely carry
- Identify the hazards of refuelling and charging LPG, diesel and battery-electric plant, and the precautions that control them
- Outline the key risks of working from EWPs, order pickers and telehandlers, including falls, tip-overs and crushing
Course Content
Final Assessment: 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available
Who This Course Is For
Warehouse, logistics, construction, manufacturing and site workers who share a workplace with powered mobile plant, plus supervisors, pedestrians and new starters who need to understand the hazards around forklifts and EWPs.
Sources and Legal References
This course is aligned to 19 official sources. Legal and regulatory references checked between 31 August 2026 and 1 November 2026.
Sources and Further Reading
This course draws on the following official sources. Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2020 (WA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (ACT)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 (NT)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic)As at 31/08/2026
- Australian StandardAS 2550As at 03/09/2026
- Australian StandardAS/NZS 1891As at 03/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (ACT)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW)As at 01/11/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 (NT)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulations 2012 (SA)As at 13/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulations 2022 (Tas)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (Vic)As at 01/11/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 (WA)As at 31/10/2026
Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It builds general safety awareness only and is not a high-risk work (HRW) licence, a forklift licence (class LF or LO), an elevating work platform licence (class WP) or a verification of competency (VOC). It does not authorise you to operate any forklift, order picker, telehandler or EWP. Operating powered mobile plant requires the licence, training, VOC and site induction required in your state or territory.
$39.00
inc GSTSeven day refund if you have not started
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For employers and teams
Buy Seats for Your Team
$39.00 per seat, inc GST
Total inc GST$195.00
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What You Get
Certificate of Completion
This is to certify that
Sample Learner
has successfully completed
Forklift and Powered Mobile Plant Safety Awareness
All learning modules and the final assessment
Scan the QR code, or enter certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 at workproof.com.au/verify
Kam Askari
Director, Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd
This is a certificate of completion of a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, a VET statement of attainment, a competency card, a licence, or evidence of competency. It is issued by Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, which is not a Registered Training Organisation.
Sample layout. Certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 verifies as Hazardous Manual Tasks and Manual Handling Safety.
- Certificate verified by its ID
- 100% online, self-paced
- Six months of access
Bought for yourself: six months of access from the day you pay. Team seat: six months from the day the worker activates their code.
Level: Beginner
