10 warehouse safety training courses

Conveyor belts are frequently used in manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, and transportation industries. If not handled properly, machinery can be extremely dangerous and might result in severe injuries like arm amputations, lacerations, burns, scrapes, broken bones, or worse, fatalities.

This warehouse safety training course walks your team through conveyor basics, common hazards, conveyor ergonomics, and physical safeguarding methods like barriers, enclosures, and fences. Your workers will also learn the difference between powered conveyors, such as belts and live rollers and gravity conveyors, like aerials and buckets.

With Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s powerful creator tool, you can easily edit the lessons and add gaming elements like drag-and-drop, sequencing, and matching to make learning fun and engaging for your workers.

Working in a manufacturing warehouse exposes your team to additional threats related to manufacturing equipment, chemicals, noise, heat, and moving production lines. This gives them more things to watch out for and protect themselves against, highlighting the importance of manufacturing-focused warehouse safety training.

This course discusses fundamental warehouse safety regulations that can help your team prepare for manufacturing hazards they might encounter at work. They’ll learn about proper PPE usage, workplace ergonomics and lifting techniques, emergency response procedures, and housekeeping practices.

The Mitti (by SafetyCulture) platform utilizes blended learning to maximize comprehension and retention. Make sure your team applies their learnings into practice by delivering digital training, conducting in-person assessments, and tracking performance all in one place.

Pallets, Racks, and Stacking course by Mitti (by SafetyCulture) is designed to help warehouse workers learn how to use warehouse stackers and handle pallets with precaution. It will also teach your team how to conduct internal inspections of pallet jacks so they can easily spot any damage that can lead to injuries.

As a remote work software, Mitti (by SafetyCulture) uses mobile learning solutions for this course, making it easily accessible for warehouse workers who don’t have immediate access to desktops and barely have enough time to spare for long training sessions.

Mitti (by SafetyCulture) also offers another warehouse safety training course on handling equipment, that's designed to guide staff who work with utility knives, box cutters, and scissors in the warehouse. This course provides a step-by-step guide to proper handling and also provides a lesson on how to treat cuts and lacerations in case of an emergency.

At the end of the course, your workers will be able to test their knowledge with a utility knife safety refresher quiz. It incorporates gamification elements to make it even more fun and engaging for the learners.

Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s Fatigue Risk Management covers fatigue and its effects on your workers’ health. It identifies causes of fatigue in the workplace, whether they're natural, substance-related factors, or work-related. It also discusses safety issues associated with fatigue, such as reduced physical ability and impaired concentration.

Once learners are already equipped with the knowledge of identifying the causes of fatigue in the workplace, it discusses different strategies for avoiding fatigue. That’s why this course is great, especially for warehouse workers who are exposed to strenuous activities at work.

You can make use of powerful Mitti (by SafetyCulture) features like rapid refresh and group training to maximize learner participation and retention, . The content has also been broken down into four digestible sections that anyone can finish in just a few minutes.

Workers in the manufacturing industry frequently perform repetitive tasks like lifting, assembling, pulling, bending, twisting, and hunching. If done continuously without a proper understanding of ergonomics, these tasks can become highly strenuous, ultimately taking a heavy toll on their physical health.

With this microlearning course, you can give your workers an overview of the benefits of ergonomics and common risk factors. It will also help them create awareness on possible injuries caused by the lack of ergonomic knowledge, along with the best ergonomic practices that can prevent injuries before they happen.

To start training your team, you can import this manufacturing training course directly from Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s course library. Even without technical skills or design expertise, you can easily edit the lessons, incorporate interactive games, or rebrand the entire course according to your company’s guidelines.

Fields of Vision by WorkSafeBC is a free online training resource for certified forklift workers who may need a refresher on some important forklift safety training information. Those with a few years of hands-on experience are more likely to gain the most from this free online training course.

This course in particular focuses on the field of vision while driving a forklift and the limitations the vehicle puts on seeing the warehouse aisles clearly. It is also better suited for desktop learning, meaning that training can’t happen on the go.

As this course is delivered in video format, you can expect increased engagement and learning retention from your learners. Plus, it is ideal for self-paced learning, perfect for the busy schedule of your employees.

This forklift training course by J.J. Keller Training aims to educate authorized personnel on the safe use of forklift equipment. It touches on the fundamentals of this equipment, pre-use and walk-around inspection requirements, operating procedures, and forklift maintenance, all of which meet OSHA compliance on forklift operator training requirements.

While originally made for new hires, this program can also be used as refresher training in the event of an incident or near-miss, poor evaluation, or changes in the type of forklift used.

In this course, Mitti (by SafetyCulture) focuses primarily on assisting order pickers in improving their practices in picking up orders in the warehouse. This course kicks off by providing workers with strategies and ways to optimize picking practices in the workplace. It also further goes into detail about the use of automated picking systems, as well as goods-to-person systems.