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