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Forklift Safety Training: The Ultimate Guide

Conger

This is the ultimate guide to forklift safety training. By the end of this article, you’ll learn: Why forklift operator safety training is important. OSHA’s training requirements. Where to get forklift operator training. How to develop your own in-house forklift training program. Let’s dive in. Table of Contents.

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Transporting Perishable Goods? Some Important Factors to Consider.

Blue Grace Logistics

The documents/formalities required in both the importing and exporting state/country. Are the drivers trained to manage the special equipment and carry perishable or fresh produce? In case you need multimodal transportation to ship your cargo, carry out this exercise for all the transporters in the chain.

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The Promise and Peril of Generative AI for Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

For knowledge management, imagine generative AI primed to intelligently search all of a company’s internal documentation to solve all kinds of problems from “how did we do this before” to “how do I do this now.” Models trained on human data reflect us, both our pride and our prejudice. The first is bias and misinformation.

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Protecting Freight From Cargo Theft with Technology

Blue Grace Logistics

Preventing Losses – How Technology and Personal Training Can Help. For instance, implementing hard locking devices on trailer doors, training drivers and personnel to understand risks and ways to mitigate them, or reinforcing background checks of all employees before they come on board are good ways to build a safe working culture.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

The combat force becomes a ‘one-shot wonder’ with little in reserve or in the training pipeline. For a long war, a larger and more costly logistic system needs to be built up, a training system maintained while combat is underway and sufficient trained personnel held in reserve to allow rotations into theatre.’.

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

note: on occasion, LIW examines the art of training and educating logisticians. LIW is privileged to have Dr Bruce Gudmundson, USMC University, discuss a teaching method very relevant to training leaders in ways to overcome ‘wicked problems’ in war. The Road to Habbaniya’ is a two-problem exercise.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

Do you have “standard work” documents that are rarely followed? Throw them away if you aren’t willing to train to them, mistake proof to them and reinforce following them. Some obstacle has been discovered, we have to better understand what it is – at least enough to get it documented. Simple is Best.