National Forklift Safety Day 2025 – 10th June

National Forklift Safety Day is a vital reminder for the entire UK material handling industry about the importance of safe forklift operation.

Every year, this day highlights how proper training, awareness, and responsibility can prevent accidents, protect lives, and improve workplace efficiency.

At HL Training Services, we’re proud to support this initiative. As a trusted forklift training provider, our mission is simple:

Empower operators and employers with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to stay safe.

✅ Forklift safety starts with proper training

✅ Regular refresher courses save lives

✅ Safety is everyone’s responsibility

Let’s continue to raise standards, reduce risks, and create safer working environments—today and every day.

Forklift Safety: Learning from the Past, Protecting the Future

In 2024, the focus of National Forklift Safety Day was a structured approach to incident management:

Prepare. Respond. Investigate. Report. Restart. Learn. Prevent.

This campaign highlighted the importance of building robust safety processes—ensuring that when incidents do occur, they are handled swiftly, investigated thoroughly, and used as learning opportunities to prevent future harm. It was a reminder that forklift safety isn’t a one-time tick-box exercise, but an ongoing commitment to improvement.

Now in 2025, the message takes a powerful and more personal turn. This year, the UK Material Handling Association (UKMHA) is urging businesses to recognise the emotional impact that serious forklift accidents can have—not just on the individuals involved, but on their families, friends, and colleagues.

The campaign calls on all of us—employers and employees alike—to acknowledge the human cost of preventable accidents. A moment’s lapse in safety can lead to life-changing consequences, affecting mental health, wellbeing, and livelihoods.

At HL Training Services, we stand behind this message. We believe that creating safer workplaces means more than compliance—it means understanding the real people behind every statistic, and working together to ensure they return home safe every day.

👉 Learn more about this year’s campaign: https://nationalforkliftsafetyday.co.uk

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