NPORS Narrow Aisle Lift Truck Training (N007)

No. They are separate NPORS categories. A very narrow aisle truck is guided, rotates its forks instead of turning, works at greater height and on man up versions lifts the operator. Existing truck experience shortens the route but it does not replace the category.

Five days for a novice on the NPORS test sheet, one day for a refresher, and one to two days for an experienced worker test. NPORS also publish a three day basic timetable for operators with some experience. We ask what each operator has actually done, and on what guidance system, before we quote.

Where the operator is lifted with the forks, harness equipment with a correctly adjusted lanyard and a designated anchor point is normal practice, and the anchor is part of the pre use check. We work to what your machine manufacturer specifies and your risk assessment requires, and train operators on the equipment they will actually wear.

At least every six months, because under LOLER equipment used for lifting persons is examined at least every six months rather than the twelve months that applies to other lifting equipment. A man down truck that lifts only the load follows the twelve month interval. Plenty of fleets have both on the same cycle, which is wrong for half of them.

Because there is no room for anything to go wrong. In a very narrow aisle there is no space to pass, nowhere for a pedestrian to stand and very little margin for a misjudged entry. Controlled entry and a one truck rule are the safety case that makes the aisle workable, and the course explains that rather than simply listing it.

Yes. We can usually work in a quieter aisle or at a shift change, and we work evenings and weekends where that suits. We need a truck with a current thorough examination, in date harness equipment on man up machines, and an aisle we can use safely.

Only where the operator works on construction sites, which needs a CITB Health, Safety and Environment test pass taken within the last two years. For distribution and warehouse work the traditional NPORS card covers the same category to the same standard.

There is no legal interval. HSE say operators need reassessing from time to time rather than at a fixed period, and three to five years is common practice. In a guided aisle operation we would reassess sooner after a rack strike, a guidance incident, a change of truck or guidance system, or a long absence.

NPORS courses are priced per course, not per person. What you are paying for is the instructor, the registered tester and the machine time, so the figure turns on four things: the category, which route your operators need (novice, experienced, conversion or refresher), how many people are coming, and whether we run it on your site or at one of ours. It is also why a squad works out considerably cheaper per head than sending operators out one at a time. Use the course builder on this page: tell it who is coming and it works out how many days the course takes and how many times it has to run, which is what the price is built from. Then ask us and you will get a figure for that exact group rather than a list price with conditions attached.

We run NPORS courses across the UK rather than out of one fixed centre, and for most categories the better answer is that we come to you: your operators are assessed on the machine they will be using anyway, nobody loses a day travelling, and for a group it costs less. If you would rather come to us, we have centres at Trent House in Stoke, Pride Park in Derby, Europa House in Manchester and Kingsway House in Liverpool. Tell us where the work is and we will say honestly which way round makes more sense.

There is no fixed timetable to wait for. NPORS courses here are run to order, which means the dates are built around your programme rather than ours, and a single operator or a full squad can normally be booked in within a couple of weeks. If you have a card about to expire or a start date to hit, say so when you enquire and we will work to it.