Section II. Training Program

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

Where a training coordinator or staff is employed as a

by the military service. Responsibilities of this position

will relate primarily to:

part of the overall civilian personnel placement and

utilization program, the services and/or knowledge of

a. Determining needs as well as points of

this element should be utilized by the training

weakness in operations and training.

administrator of the storage and materials handling

b. Advising the staff as to whether training can

activity to:

assist in solving specific operating problems as they

a. Instruct trainees in the techniques of presenting

arise.

material to others.

c. Obtaining information concerning current

b. Develop methods and devices for measuring

changes which might affect training already in progress.

and testing; and instruct trainees in their use.

c. Utilize existing training materials and adapt

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Coordination

With

Other

Installation

them to the needs of the storage and materials handling

Activities.

program.

d. Train supervisors in the techniques for analyzing

Coordination should be maintained between the storage

their jobs and the jobs of their subordinate employees.

and materials handling training administrator and other

e. Assist in setting up necessary training records

affected elements of the installation (e.g., the

installation personnel office and management offices).

and schedules.

In this manner, the overall policies and objectives of the

f. Assist in setting up and/or providing necessary

installation can be injected in the specific training

physical facilities for training purposes.

programs of the separate activities or operations being

trained.

Section II. Training Program

need not choose between group or individual on-the-job

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What Is Storage and Materials Handling

training; both are essential. The purpose of this training

Training?

program is to give warehouse supervisors and

understanding of the basic fundamentals and

a. The main reason for having the military storage

management policies of storage operations and

installations is to receive, store, and move military

materials handling.

supplies. The actual operations within the installation

directly related to these activities may be called

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warehousing and materials handling. Training in this

Operations and Materials Handling Training?

field must cover many specific jobs which require the

use of a great deal of knowledge of warehousing

principles,

procedures,

storage

methods,

and

a. This manual will be considered the textbook for

warehousing and materials handling management

training in these fields. Instructors should ensure that all

problems.

students have a working knowledge of the manual and a

detailed knowledge of the portion that affects their

b. Training in warehouse and materials handling

specific jobs.

should be carried on by two methods:

b. The Conference Leader's Guide places

(1) A series of planned conferences in which

emphasis on:

warehouse supervisors, military and civilian, have an

opportunity to think through, step by step, and in a

(1) Proper methods of laying out and

logical and organized way, the many points that go into

allocating space.

making or breaking an efficient operation.

(2) Accepted ways of storing and stacking the

(2) On-the-job training in which specific

many different items handled, so that space can be

operations are taught individually to men and women

utilized to the best advantage.

whose main duty is centered on one or two segments of

(3) Efficient and speedy methods of handling

the whole operation.

materials in order to save manpower, equipment, and

c. Too often all training in warehousing and

time. This is known as "materials handling." (4) The

materials handling has been called "on-the-job" training.

need for training the best qualified employees in the

This may mean anything, from no training at all, training

installation to carry on this program under the direction

given by many different people (who may or may not be

of the storage manager.

in agreement on what they are teaching), or planned,

organized, practical and valid on-the-job training. We

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