Our Mission
To prevent workplace fatalities and injuries by teaching operators to anticipate, recognize, and avoid dangerous situations. We do this by providing the highest quality and most engaging on-site safety training programs based on expert experience, intelligent application, and the latest technical innovations.
AFSC provides your business with professional on-site safety training and certification for all your mobile equipment needs. Our training systems are catered to both experienced and novice operators alike. If your business has powered mobile equipment, AFSC is your on-site safety training solution.
The Alberta Forklift Safety Council was started 20 years ago by a small group of experienced tradespeople (mainly Heavy Duty Mechanics) who have worked with heavy equipment their entire careers. Our advantage is our deep knowledge of the mechanics of heavy equipment and a comprehensive understanding of the work situations that surround them. Our experience working with the most skilled operators in Alberta and our thorough familiarity of Alberta OH&S regulations and legislation - allow us to build highly relevant, thought provoking courses.
The Alberta Forklift Safety Council is committed to delivering the most effective and relevant safety courses possible. One of the ways we achieve this is to train and test your employees at their worksite on the equipment they use day to day. This helps to ensure maximum familiarity with their equipment, minimizing the risk of future incidents. Instead of sending your employees to an off-site training facility - to be trained on an unfamiliar piece of equipment which may not align with what is used in your workplace, give us a call and we’ll come to you.
Based out of Canmore, Alberta, AFSC has instructors stationed throughout the province to meet your safety training requirements, wherever, and whenever they may be.
Employers must ensure that their workers are trained in the safe operation of the equipment that the workers are required to operate.
An employer must ensure that the training includes the following :
Occupational Health & Safety Act - Alberta Regulation 62/2003
A worker who is not competent to perform work that may endanger the worker or others must not perform the work except under the direct supervision of a worker who is competent to perform the work.
A worker must immediately report to the employer equipment that :
Occupational Health & Safety Act - Alberta Regulation 62/2003
An employer must ensure that all equipment used at a work site :
If a worker is required under the Act, the regulations or the adopted code to use or wear specific equipment, the employer must ensure that the worker uses or wears the equipment at the work site.
Occupational Health & Safety Act - Alberta Regulation 62/2003
All AFSC programs, including content and structure, meet or exceed all existing regulations and standards, including OSHA 29 (CFR 1910.178), Canada Labour Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. L-2, plus Part II), Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code 2009, Canadian Safety and Health Regulations (SOR/86-304), WCB Alberta, CSA (B335-04) ANSI/ITSDF B56.1-2012
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