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I can visualize certain situations where it would be a sensible precautionary step to chock the wheels depending on the weight of the items to be loaded or unloaded, the lay of the dock and surrounding land.

I have seen a imbedded towline in a warehouse move this one time when my co worker's forklift stopped working and the towline moved this 4 ton forklift sideways.
We had to even had to work on docks with no way to stop the forklift from going overboard onto the parking lot.
All I know is ? always make sure the brakes are on on a forklift.
But loading and unloading a trailer with a forklift ? it's both the driver's job and the forklift driver's job to make sure the wheels on the trailers are chocked, and for good reason.
I have heard some horror stories of accidents with forklift and people not paying attention.
One time ? This tracktor trailer driver forgot that this forklift and forklift driver was in the trailer and the driver of the tracktor trailer just started his truck and took off and the driver of the forklift and forklift fell out of the back of the trailer and got killed.