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Lift Truck Drivers Civeu Safety Training There are 850 to 900 lift truck or tow truck drivers at Fieldcrest Mills, 'Muding the regular drivers and those drive only occassionally. Every driver operates his vehicle in an area "'here other people are at work. To insure the safety of other em- Ptoyees as well as that of the driver “■niself, Fieldcrest licenses the drivers after eye tests, training classes 3tid performance tests. Tor more effective, standardized raining, Eden area lift truck and tow ruck drivers now attend classes con- Ucted each month by the Fieldcrest raining Department. These classes and ue performance check are the final tops in the license qualification pro- ^dure, a process which begins in the to'U with operational training on the ‘‘ft truck. In the classes conducted in the Train- dg Departrnent conference room in the building, the drivers receive in- ruction in principles of operation of rl trucks and tow trucks with em phasis on safety. The format includes slides and films, tocussions of problems and the pre- ^dPtation of actual accident cases with discussion of the causes and the meth- ds of preventing their recurrence. Since the centralized procedure was Urted at Eden in June, in addition to ® qualification of those drivers al- hddy on the job, 35 newly assigned >vers have completed the training, ^^dtlying plants will have similar class- 0 ,?°Pducted by the mill training co- „ uinator or other instructors whenever Shown shove are students in Training Department’s most recent lift and tow truck class. Instructor, far left, is Charles Davis, training supervisor. i i thi I 'f are drivers to be trained, gf^hder the new procedure, each driv- o given an eye test and attends the t|^’^®S'hour training class. He then re- to his mill for a performance test (Continued on Page Six) Robert Lindsey (right), instructs new driver Percy Wilson Eye test is given to Melvin Frazier of the Bedspread Mill by Charles Davis. Lloyd Price gives driver James L. Adams performance test. Mi —it Tm Xk 'm:
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