Lift Truck Training
A lot of industries make use of powered industrial trucks for material handling. In the recycling business, internal combustion powered forklifts are popular. Lift truck operation requires well trained operators. Within North America, training is a requirement, and for good reason. A forklift could inflict personal injury or serious property damage if not safely utilized. A loaded forklift can weight three times as much as a motor vehicle. Lift trucks are accountable for many industrial accidents, either as the primary or the secondary source of the accident. Reports of injuries or fatalities involving both operators or pedestrians are all very commonplace.
Training Requirement
A training program for operators must be developed and implemented by employers. Moreover, the program should be based on four factors: the general principles of safe truck operation, the types of vehicles being used in the workplace, the particular hazards of the workplace and the general safety requirements, based on OSHA. Training includes both practical and formal parts. At the training's completion, operators should pass an assessment showing they have the ability to properly operate a truck. OSHA also requires that powered industrial truck operators must be trained in certain specified subject matters that is applicable to safely operating a lift truck.