The 21-year scoreboard
As on the job sites and in the warehouses where we work, what counts is on the board. Numbers from our own records — and still counting.
- +12,500
- certified operators
- +21,000
- training certificates issued
- +4,200
- training actions delivered
- +500
- companies have trusted us with their teams
- 40
- equipment courses in the catalogue
- +50
- nationalities among our trainees
Counts from our certificate records, complete from 2005 to 2025, rounded down — the exact numbers can only be higher.
The country changed. We were here to help.
In 2005, the year we opened our doors, 300 people died in accidents at work in Portugal. In 2024 it was 120 — less than half. Over the same period, total accidents fell from 228,884 to 187,018.1
This victory has many owners: those who legislate, those who inspect, those who train and those who operate. We don't claim the credit — we claim our place in this fight, every day, since day one.
27.1% of workplace deaths in the EU, in 2023
The number-one cause is our specialty.
Losing control of a machine or of a transport and load-handling device is the leading cause of fatal accidents at work in the European Union (27.1%) — and of non-fatal ones too (21.7%).2 The transport and storage sector alone accounts for 16.4% of Europe's workplace deaths.3
Preventing exactly this kind of accident has been our trade for 21 years.
Training works. It's been measured.
Don't take our word for it — the international evidence on the effect of operator training is clear.
−70% errors
Fewer errors at the controls
The studies behind the US standard for forklift operator training measured a 70% drop in error rates after structured training — and OSHA estimated the rule would prevent 11 deaths and 9,422 injuries per year.4
≈3× more effective
Real practice beats the classroom
A meta-analysis of 95 studies concluded that hands-on, engaging training — with real machines, exercises and dialogue — is about three times more effective than passive training.5 That's how we've always worked: a maximum of 5 trainees per course, real machines.
Operator training is not optional. Portugal's Decree-Law 50/2005 (art. 32) and European Directive 2009/104/EC require self-propelled work equipment, such as forklifts, to be operated only by duly qualified workers. Read Decree-Law 50/2005 (PDF, in Portuguese)
The next 21 years start with your certificate.
Get certified — or certify your team — with people who have made this their trade since 2005.
Sources for the external statistics
- Pordata, with data from GEP/MTSSS and GEE — Accidents at work: total and fatal (in Portuguese), 2005–2024 series (accessed August 2026).
- Eurostat — Accidents at work: statistics on causes and circumstances, 2023 ESAW data.
- Eurostat — Accidents at work: statistics by economic activity, 2023 data.
- OSHA (USA) — Powered Industrial Truck Operator Training, Final Rule, Federal Register, 1998. The 70% reduction refers to the operator error rate measured in the underlying studies; the estimate of accidents prevented is OSHA's own.
- Burke, M. J., et al. — Relative Effectiveness of Worker Safety and Health Training Methods, American Journal of Public Health, 2006 (meta-analysis of 95 studies, ~21,000 participants).
- ISSA — international "Return on Prevention" study, cited by EU-OSHA in Good OSH is good for business.
- EU-OSHA / ILO — estimate presented at the XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, 2017: a cost of 3.3% of EU GDP.