South African Freight Handling Courses
The National Certificate: Freight Handling (SAQA ID: 57831, NQF Level 3) equips learners with essential knowledge and skills for safe, efficient, and compliant freight handling operations across diverse industries. It prepares individuals to handle goods, apply health and safety protocols, operate handling equipment, and understand basic business and communication principles within the freight sector.
PURPOSE
Prepare learners to perform freight handling functions safely and efficiently, apply health and safety procedures, handle and secure goods, and develop basic communication, numeracy, and administrative skills relevant to freight handling.
Module 1: Business Basics
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- Communication Theory
- Environment, Energy Efficiency and Ethics
Module 2: Health and Safety
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- Health, Safety, Quality and Legislation
Module 3: Freight Handler Theory
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- Freight Handler Theory
Module 4: Receiving of Freight
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- Receiving of Freight
- Processes and procedures to receive freight and observe operational requirements relating to freight handling: stevedoring or warehousing or bulk cargo or courier or air freight operations
Module 5: Allocating Freight for Storage
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- Allocating Freight for Storage
- The organisational freight allocation processes, systems and procedures
Module 6: Picking of Freight
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- Picking of Freight
- The practices of picking freight accurately as per customer requirements
Module 7: Reconciling of Freight
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- Reconciling of Freight
- Processes and procedures to reconcile freight correctly as per customer order requirements
Module 8: Dispatching of Freight
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- Dispatching of Freight
- The dispatching of freight practices as per customer, legislative and organisational requirements
- Duration: 12 Months
- Delivery: Classroom/Online/Blended
- NQF Level 2 qualification (Grade 10) or equivalent.
- Lead Hand/Supervisor
- Inventory Control Specialist
- Shipping and Receiving Clerk
- National Certificate: Freight Handling
- Accreditation: QCTO
- SAQA ID: 57831
- NQF Level: 3
- Credits: 130