Lift Truck Training
For handling materials, there are numerous kinds of industries which utilize powered industrial trucks. In the recycling industry, internal combustion powered forklifts are normally utilized. Lift truck operation requires operators who are well trained. Within North America, training is a requirement, and for good reason. A forklift can inflict personal injury or serious damage to property if not safely used. 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 fatalities or injuries involving 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 within the workplace, the certain hazards of the workplace and the general safety requirements, based on OSHA. Training combines both practical and formal components. At the completion of the training, operators should pass an assessment showing they have the ability to operate the truck properly. OSHA also requires that operators of powered industrial trucks should be trained in certain specified topics that apply to safely operating a lift truck.