FAQs

No.

Any paper licence holders who need to operate a forklift or order picker in the workplace will need to undertake further training to bring them up to current Australian standards plus knowledge of Legislation and Regulations. They will need to undertake re-assessment and make a fresh application for a Licence at a Queensland branch of Australia Post. Talk to us about an RPL course (Recognised Prior Learning).

Depends.

If you have already done your theory training before hand and have the necessary paperwork issued by a RTO or an employer then the answer is Yes, we should be able to progress you through to your practical exam and finalisation of assessment.

If you have 40 hours logged in a logbook where no theory or formal training was done before you started recording hours in that logbook the answer is a definite No.

Note:
In July 2008 it passed into The Workplace Health and Safety Regulations that the theory training MUST be done before any logbook hours (work based practical) training can take place. All new logbooks available in the marketplace today allow for this to happen.

In legal terms, hours recorded in a logbook where no theory session has been delivered first are classed as “illegally trained hours”, and any trainees using this old system and still recording hours in a logbook are actually operating illegally and need to take steps to rectify the situation. Penalties of up to $20,000 (200 penalty units) apply.

Trainees have 2 options in this situation, either start again with a 2 stage training course or enrol for a 3 day course with the possibility of an early assessment.

No, you need to “cross your licence over” to an Australian Licence, you can contact Workplace Health and Safety Queensland 1300 369 915 to see if you qualify for an automatic transfer. However, in our experience Licences that can be swapped straight over are in the minority. Most overseas Forklift Licence holders have to undertake some gap training and re-certification. If your Licence is a current and you have recent experience, you may qualify for a 1 day RPL gap training course. If your Licence is over 5 -6 years old and it is a while since you have used a machine, you will probably find that the full training course or 2 stage course are more suited to you.

YES. It is a Qld issued licence recognised nationally – renewable every 5 years.

When driving a forklift on the road, the machine needs to be either road registered or a permit (or exemption) obtained.

You will also need a high risk forklift licence and a current driving licence (for the class of car is fine).

If we trained you…

Under Workplace Health and Safety Legislation we still have regulations to follow and a responsibility to make sure that you are still current and competent on a machine. If we trained and assessed you then we will obviously know what was covered in our own course. Therefore, if you only missed the deadline by 1-6 months it maybe possible for you to just re-sit the theory, the calculation exam and the practical skills test and be issued with new paperwork.

If you missed your deadline by over 6 months, or if you feel that you struggled with your course and you need a refresher session on either the theory or the practical training, we can arrange for you to spend a day with us – effectively a 1 day RPL course.

If you missed your deadline by over 12 months then you will be required to re-enrol on a full training course with a view to early assessment.

If we did not train you …

The Assessment only option would not be open to you if your original training course was not undertaken with us, as we could never be 100% sure that everything that needed to be covered was covered. Given that this is high risk work and the “detail” is important, we would have to start at a minimum of a 1 day gap training course or a full training course with a view to an early assessment, depending on how much time has elapsed since you missed the deadline for licence application and what you have been doing on the machine since that time.

You will need to complete a Recognised Prior Learning Application form before acceptance onto a course. A letter of support from an employer is a valuable tool in these instances but not essential. Please contact us.