Forklift Safety Training: Insure that your organization is compliant with OSHA regulations
Training done at your location or ours, review the training calendar for more on dates and times
Course detail
Operator Safety Training Makes Sense
A Program to Assist with Training Operators of Powered Industrial Trucks in Order to Achieve Compliance with OSHA Law 29FR1910.178(1)
Our Course covers the following Topics
Lift Truck Basics
What is a lift truck?
- Lift and carry a load
- Powered Industrial Truck
- LPG, gas, diesel, and electric
- Only use the forklift for what it was designed to do
- Any other use is unsafe
- Do not push or pull loads
Type of lift trucks
- Class I (Four wheel sit down electrics)
- Class II (Stand up Electrics)
- Class III (Electric Pallet Jacks)
- Class IV (Cushion Tire Internal Combustion)
- Class V (Pneumatic Tire Internal Combustion)
Pre-Operation Inspection
Two part checkout procedure
- Walk around & Operational check
- Reduce downtime
- Increase productivity
- Risk reduction
- Required under OSHA
The walk around
- Forks
- Warning
- Decals/Manuals
- Load Back Rest
- Hydraulic Oil
- Sheet Metal Covers
- Engine Oil
- Tires & Wheels
- Radiator Fluid
- Overhead Guard
- Battery connectors
Operational check
- Data Plate & Load Chart
- Gauges & Instruments
- Brakes
- Parking and Seat
- Brake
- Directional Controls
- Steering
Handling characteristics
- Entering and exiting a lift truck
- Proper use of operators compartment
- Learning about your truck before operating it
- Use your operators guide
- Rules of the road
- Entering and Exiting Trailers and Rail Cars
- Rail Road Tracks Crossing
- Docks and Ramps
Load Handling
- Picking up a load
- Creep into a load
- Depositing a Load
- High Stacking
Balance and Stability
- Capacity plates
- Load Center
- Stability Triangle
Fueling Procedures
- Gasoline and Diesel Fueling Procedures
- Refueling the LP Gas Truck
Battery Changing and Charging
- Battery Discharge Indicator
- Protective apparel
Forklift Systems Forklift Safety Training: Materials, and Classes. Limit your Company’s Liability – Save Lives, Injuries and Employee “Downtime” – Reduce Damage to Your Plant, Equipment and Product! With the new OSHA regulations, lift truck safety is more than simple common sense, it’s simply the law.
