Along with forlift safety mesures we also supply you with basic information on how your aisle ways should be mark within your facility. We cover the full range of safety material on forklifts from industrial floor tapes to how to make sure you keep up on your maintenance. Finding a ways to keep a facility safe is key in todays age as move and more we are having to move faster to keep up and stay ahead with less people and more work. This free forklift safety training guide is to help prepare your facility for a safe workplace.

Forklift Training - 29 CFR 1910.178

regulations; each student must pass a written test and performance evaluation. Participants receive a student workbook and wallet card certificate valid for 3-years.

Reasons for The OSHA standard

Each year, tens of thousands of injuries related to powered industrial trucks (PIT), or forklifts, occur in US workplaces. Many employees are injured when lift trucks are inadvertently driven off loading docks, lifts fall between docks and an unsecured trailer, they are struck by a lift truck, or when they fall while on elevated pallets and tines. Most incidents also involve property damage, including damage to overhead sprinklers, racking, pipes, walls, and machinery. Unfortunately, most employee injuries and property damage can be attributed to lack of safe operating procedures, lack of safety-rule enforcement, and insufficient or inadequate training.

Pulse America is committed to reducing industrial and commercial lift equipment accidents. We offer all employers to have their forklift operator’s professionally trained and certified on the following types of lift equipment:

Sit down counterbalance forklifts

• Narrow Aisle stand up reach & order picker machines
• Electric hand & rider pallet jacks
• Rough Terrain / Piggy back trailer machines
• Scissor lift platform equipment
• Trailer mounted lift platforms
• Aerial man platform lifting equipment
• Reach Boom Aerial lift equipment
• Reach Boom fork equipment

What does the OSHA Standard say?
1910.178(l)
Operator training.
1910.178(l)(1)
Safe operation.
1910.178(l)(1)(i)
The employer shall ensure that each powered industrial truck operator is competent to operate a powered industrial truck safely, as demonstrated by the successful completion of the training and evaluation specified in this paragraph (l).
1910.178(l)(1)(ii)
Prior to permitting an employee to operate a powered industrial truck (except for training purposes), the employer shall ensure that each operator has successfully completed the training required by this paragraph (l), except as permitted by paragraph (l)(5).

 Training is required when:

• Unsafe operation is observed
• Accident or near-miss occurs
• Evaluation indicates need
• Different type of equipment introduced
• Workplace condition changes