Name four checks you must make to a load before picking it up.

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Name 4 checks you must make to a load before picking it up

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Name 4 checks you must make to a load before picking it up is question number eleven on the instructor's main set of questions. Please note you may or may not get this question on a forklift operator's training course. The actual answers expected are:

A.   Its weight
B.   Its load centre
C.   The location where you are to collect or deposit the load
D.   Its condition and security
E.   What the load consists of
F.    Is the load ‘live’
G.   What material the pallet is made from

Your wording does not have to be exactly as the answers shown above but should be capable of interpretation so as to mean the same as the answers above.

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Name 4 checks you must make to a load before picking it up