Lift Truck Training
For handling materials, there are many types of industries which use powered industrial trucks. In the recycling business, internal combustion powered forklifts are popular. Lift truck operation need well trained operators. Training is a requirement within North America, and for a really good reason. A forklift could inflict personal injury or serious property damage if not used safely. A forklift that is loaded can weight three times as much as a motor vehicle. Lift trucks are accountable for many industrial accidents, either as the secondary or the primary source of the accident. Reports of fatalities or injuries involving both operators or pedestrians are all too commonplace.
Training Requirement
Employers should develop and apply a training program for operators based on four factors: the kinds of vehicles being used within the workplace, the general principles of safe truck operation, the certain hazards of the workplace and the general safety requirements, based on OSHA. Training includes both formal and practical components. At the training's completion, operators must pass an assessment showing they have the ability to correctly operate a truck. OSHA also requires that operators of powered industrial trucks must be trained in certain specified topics which is applicable to safely operating a lift truck.