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b'Marty T Hawkins with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I hope everyone\\u2019s enjoying the changing of the weather. I\\u2019m in Texas, we don\\u2019t really see all 4 seasons every year but I\\u2019ve got to say I\\u2019m enjoying the cooler evenings right now! So, I\\u2019ve had a couple of questions about what I mean about self-education and how we should be learning something all the time. Carl wrote I drive a lift, what else is there for me to learn? And Maria asked what else could she learn about Sanitation? We\\u2019ve been talking about our Goals and planning the last couple of weeks and I\\u2019m thinking maybe some of us are thinking about making some changes or stepping up, thinking about our futures a bit!
\\nSo about Carl\\u2019s question. A couple of weeks ago we bought a used Toyota Counterbalance forklift. It is a model 7FGU25. That didn\\u2019t really tell me anything, so I looked it up on-line and found a great site at
\\n https://www.toyotaforklift.com/blog/how-to-read-toyota-forklift-model-numbers
\\nI learned the 7 was the Series, the F is for the category of the industrial vehicle, F is forklift, T is tow tractor, H is electric jack and B was for baseleg. G tells us what type of drive, G is CNG LPG or Gasoline. The U means it was manufactured in the USA and T would mean Italy. The last 2 digits tells us chassis capacity, 25 represents 5000#.
\\nNow it\\u2019d been a while since I\\u2019ve sat on a propane unit, so I went and reviewed it\\u2019s start up and shut down procedures just to refresh my mind to them. Oh, and the operating levers or controls. I ran through the tilt, side shift and raise and lower controls, found the horn and the strobe switch for the lights and of course checked the unit\\u2019s weight and balance plate. Toyota actually had a page for how to drive a sit-down forklift. I\\u2019ll add it to today\\u2019s show notes if you\\u2019d like to look at it. https://www.toyotaforklift.com/blog/how-to-drive-a-sit-down-forklift
\\n Anyway, just between these two websites I picked up about 5 keywords I could throw out to a member of management and spark a conversation with. Something like that is what I refer to as learning, I think of learning as anything that\\u2019ll get us noticed, up for a promotion and making more money!
\\nMaria does Sanitation, I\\u2019m not sure what all her job entails but I think sanitation is one of those tasks that we never learn everything about! I was putting together a Spill Kit section in a warehouse, just hanging some brooms and mops over in the corner and the company had purchased a XXX Spill Kit. It came with a big plastic container of absorbent, a small broom, a couple of trash bags and a little dust pan looking thing to sweep up the absorbent once it\\u2019s been applied and done its job on a spill. So you guessed it, my curiosity was peaked by what those granules were so I pulled up spill kits on-line. I now know more about spill kits than I ever thought I would in 3 lifetimes. We could have actually bought a little cheaper kit if we\\u2019d have checked them out before buying one, we\\u2019d never be using half the things for such a powerful absorbent. Myself when I think of Sanitation the first thing that comes to mind is chemicals. Maybe becoming a pro at understanding our SDS books and pages is something she could learn too.
\\nMy job requires I do quite a bit of training, mainly with warehouse positions, writing policies and procedures and keeping up with the different regulatory rules. I usually make quick presentation power points, something simple just to speak too and convey efficiencies and Leadership techniques. I had seen a Prezi presentation and wanted to do one. After a few hours on YouTube I put one together and now I\\u2019ve given two presentations with that program. Again, learning can be anything. Like I said I consider anything that\\u2019ll get us noticed, gives us some keywords or sentences we can toss around to management and make us more money or get us promoted to that next step as ...'