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Any Canadian Techies out There?

As a trainer, and definitely not a service tech, I have a tech question for you. From my understanding, and knowledge, all forklifts in Canada, the data plates, must be in the imperial measurement system. Although Canada is a metric country, data plates are supposedly to be in imperial, and if so, metric beside it.

If you were a service tech, and you were performong an annual safety inspection, and the forklift being saftied had a metric only data plate, would you strongly urge the client to switch over to imperial? Would you certify the truck even though it has a metric data plate?
  • Posted 22 Dec 2008 12:31
  • By dan_m
  • joined 14 Oct'05 - 335 messages
  • Ontario, Canada
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www dot ccohs dot ca/oshanswers/safety_haz/forklift/load dot html

the CCOHS (canada's equivalent to OSHA) doesnt specify on its site about units of measure, but its example of a data plate is only in metric
im going to assume its ok as long as the capacity accurately reflects the max rated load
call them and ask im sure the # is on the site

IE: if a 2500 kilo rated machine has a side shifter installed but the plate still reads 2500 kilo then the plate is wrong and i woulnt pass it
  • Posted 22 Dec 2008 14:45
  • Modified 22 Dec 2008 14:47 by poster
  • By justinm
  • joined 13 Apr'06 - 604 messages
  • New York, United States
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