Hilton Group QLD, Rockhampton
Family-owned training, High Risk Work licensing and safety consulting for Central Queensland employers.
Hilton Group QLD is the Rockhampton family company behind Forky Stick and Hilton's Safety and Training. Your training, licences and safety system, sorted by one local team.
Registered Training Organisation 45802Nationally recognised training for high risk, mining, civil construction and safety roles. Forklift, EWP, dogging, rigging and crane units, plus machinery, agriculture and Certificate III pathways.
Safety auditing and SHMSComprehensive safety auditing and Safety Health Management Systems built around how your business actually runs. Legislatively sound, practical, and written to be used on site.
From one licence to a staged program for a whole crew. Accredited and non-accredited work is always labelled for what it is.
Units of competency, skill sets and qualifications within Forky Stick's approved scope. Successful units lead to a Statement of Attainment.
Training and assessment across 11 Queensland High Risk Work Licence classes, from forklift and EWP to dogging, rigging and cranes.
Employer-focused checks that a worker can perform specified tasks to the agreed standard, recorded clearly as a VOC, not a qualification.
Targeted sessions to refresh knowledge and close gaps your crew or a site audit has picked up, before they turn into an incident.
Hands-on help with safety systems, procedures, risk controls and the training needs that come out of them.
Next World VR scenarios for hazard recognition, plant interaction, emergency response and communication. They add to practical training, never replace it.
Closed groups, staged programs and schedules built around your rosters, projects and where your people are heading next.
Small classes, real plant and Scott's 5.0-rated training. Prices from forkystick.com.au, with dates and booking on each course.
TLILIC0003 Licence to operate a forklift truck
TLILIC0005 Licence to operate a boom-type elevating work platform (boom length 11 metres or more)
CPCCLDG3001 Licence to perform dogging
CPCCLRG3001 Licence to perform rigging basic level
Needs dogging first
Dates and booking for Basic rigging on forkystick.com.au (opens in a new tab)
RIISS00034 Surface Coal Mine Safety Skill Set
CPCWHS1001 Prepare to work safely in the construction industry
RIIWHS204E Work safely at heights
RIIHAN309F Conduct telescopic materials handler operations
69 courses in total
Mining and machinery, agriculture, cranes, Certificate III and online refreshers.
All courses (opens in a new tab)Successful participants receive a nationally recognised Statement of Attainment from Forky Stick Training and Safety Consultants (RTO 45802). High Risk Work Licences are then applied for through Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.
Thirty-six seconds over the Forky Stick training yard during a rigging and dogging course.
We audit what you have, build what is missing and keep it legislatively sound. Then we train your people on it, so it lives on site and not in a folder.
We listen first. A course calendar can't tell us what your crew needs, so every program starts with your roles, risks and the projects ahead.
Your workforce roles, current capability, operational risks, projects and priorities.
Training pathways, licence requirements, cohorts, timing, locations and prerequisites.
Enrolment, eligibility checks, resources, online access, equipment and scheduling.
Trainer-led, online, practical, workplace or blended, to suit the program.
Formal assessment, refresher evidence, VOC activity or participation checks.
Accurate results, learner records, employer reporting and certification processing.
Spot gaps, future project needs, licence progression and refreshers coming due.
Flexible delivery never means cutting required learning, assessment or safety. It means finding the most practical compliant way to get it done.
Training rooms, practical areas and admin at 110 Alma Street.
Crane, steel training tower and room to lift real loads.
Where the environment, equipment and permissions suit the unit.
Negotiated delivery at agreed locations across Central Queensland and beyond.
Theory online through the Ammonite learning system, practical in person.
Cohorts sequenced around rosters, projects and role progression.
As a family-owned business, our reputation is personal. We value direct communication, fair dealing, accountability and long-term relationships.
Scott Hilton
Managing Director, Hilton Group QLD
Unity is our strength.
Give it to get it.
The foundation of a good relationship.
Local people, direct lines, long-term partners.
Surface operations, high risk work, plant and supervision.
Plant, high risk work, safety and project capability.
Licensing, plant interaction and safety awareness.
Lifting, plant, isolation and role-specific skills.
Tractors, machinery, chemicals and first aid.
Compliance, licensing, plant and structured programs.
High risk work, site capability and hazard awareness.
Mobilisation, licence development and clean records.
Forky Stick is rated 5.0 on Google by the people it has trained.
Read them on Google (opens in a new tab)“Scotty knows his stuff and has an incredible amount of experience and knowledge. I could not imagine a better place to have done my forklift ticket.”
Angus, Forky Stick trainee, Google review
“Scott is an experienced operator and great instructor… great facilities, both for theory and practise in addition to smooth logistics.”
Arnaud Gourret, Forky Stick trainee, Google review
“It's good to be trained by someone with so much experience in the industry, very valuable learning from someone who wants to train you.”
Matthew Hastie, Forky Stick trainee, Google review
One licence or a whole crew, a safety audit or a full SHMS. Tell us what you're working towards and we'll tell you straight what we can do.
