Here is a great guide on how to operate a forklift truck!
https://forkliftlicensehq.com/forklift-operation

yeah dan i agree, it amazes me what people try to pass off as legit training these days.
IMO the 'hands on' part of training should be a non-negotiable part of operator training so that the trainee can demonstrate that they can actually operate a lift. Just giving a seminar on how to drive one and handing out a certification card is just plain irresponsible.

Not from this city. Surprised they don't all get sued for their improper training.
Trained at a business yesterday and they told me thst their previous training included sit down counterbalance propane and whims all in 4 hours and they never went near the forklift.

That there is quality training for sure lol

Not from this city. Surprised the don't all get sued for their improper training.
Trained at a business yesterday and they told me that they were taught sit down counterbalance propane and whims all in 4 hours and they never went near the forklift.

That there is quality training

Here is a great guide on operating a forklift
https://forkliftlicensehq.com/forklift-operation

osha forklift safety training standards are here if anyone has any doubts as to what it entails

https ://safetyskills. com/osha-forklift-training-requirements

just remove the spaces out of the url i provided

theres no guessing, its not vague and its more than just an online training course.

There are a whole lot of people that drive a car that don't know how to properly & safely drive a car and they cause a lot of accidents & deaths. Most cars I know of all have front steering (some have all wheel steer) a forklift has rear steer big differnece and they don't carry and elevate a load that is about 1/2 of the gross vehicle weight or ae equipped w/ load handling attachments like carton clamps and paper roll clamps, etc. Go back to sleep - your thinking is dangerous.
Oh by the way, we (the US) took the lead out of paint in the 1970's and I'm certain othe countries did too - harmful to humans and babies.
Now you can really go back to sleep.

OMG, how can it be trained on line, in fact, it's easy, if you can drive a car, it's easy to drive a forklift

Thanks Raytech- you're very kind.

Very well said BBforks.....

""It's amazing the results attained when everyone is trained, cameras are installed and someone is let go because the company has a system in place that weeds out repeated safety violators. Everyone seems happier (believe it or not), more pride seems to be taken at their respective job""

That's bang on! Heck, you take a job as a writer the the President...wish I could express myself that well!
you know your $>it!

tj- I agee that management has to have personal responsibility in the training & safety of their emplyees- but I have seen over & over again that it's the emplyees- not management- that ruin the training & safety programs by doing shortcuts they know they shouldn't do.

I do know accidents happen, that sometimes good meaning actions go horribly wrong, but if you're trained on what not to do- then you shouldn't do it, period.

It's hard for me to feel bad for someone who is trying to beat the clock, hurrying up so they can take a break later & wind up hurting themselves ( or worse yet, someone else) because they were going to fast, were distracted & not paying attention, or just plain being stupid.

I have had customers who's management didn't value safety & training, and the moral of the employee pool showed the result of such thinking. When management doesn't care, no one does. It's amazing the results attained when everyone is trained, cameras are installed and someone is let go because the company has a system in place that weeds out repeated safety violators. Everyone seems happier (believe it or not), more pride seems to be taken at their respective job and, in the long run, repairs to the equipment actually are less because problems are caught & resolved much more quickly- mostly because no one wants to operate a lift that may be unsafe.

Laws, standards... even common sense does not matter. Too many times the motivation for change... motivation to even care, is born out of the reality that an accident creates for the worker who is injured, their family, the co-workers, the company, the management, and the monetary and legal liabilities all experienced. Why? This is not rocket science. We have all heard the saying; "too late to close the barn doors after the horses got out". The bigger the company, the more likely they have experienced the "horses getting out". That's why sometimes the larger companies have more aggressive training programs. I agree with what was said about personal responsibility. It is absolutely key to changing behavior. Until people involved in making decisions (management) about how much effort or money they put into their safety training starts to feel more personal responsibility for their co-workers... compromises in training will continue. And that is just sad.

Dang! A company gas card too! Worth as much as the Bimmer these days lol

That is so true bbforks! Camera`s are the best safety prevention of all! We had a guy last week claim the truck failed and caused him injury. Camera showed him falling asleep, slumping over then crashing into the racks.

And our company now has online training that we must take every year...we log in with a password and take the course, do the test. Takes some pressure off our trainer as he does all the big accounts
He does`nt drive a Beamer but does have company Venza with gas card!

No disrespect to either of you-I do understand the importance of what you do.

What I can tell you is that after 25 years of being self- employed- working for mostly small businesses is that safety is a concern, but the cheapest safety under the law is what matters most. All my customers at one time or another get on a safety kick, get involved with training, equipment, etc. In 99% of the cases, it doesn't last all that long. Safety involves time, energy & money. Small businesses don't have alot of that to go around (for whatever reason).

The larger businesses I service do get alot more concerned with safety. Usually I hear the phrase "We have to be careful because we have deep pockets". I have seen the most elaborate safety systems (IMHO) fail because someone was in a rush, the boss wasn't in or some other excuse. The operators who caused these systems to fail knew they were not following procedure, but in the end the outcome was the same- regardless of the reason.

To date- the most effective safety system I've seen is when cameras are installed. It's amazing how differently people act when they know they are being watched. I believe it's all about personal responsibility- which folks seem to find when they loose the ability to make up some story on how the manual shifted forklift left running in the parking lot jumped into gear on it's own, the forks raising to about 3'-again on it's own- & speared an employee which required a 911 emergency call- emergency surgery & a visit from OSHA.

The above situation did happen to a large- multi national company with a very sound safety system in place. I was called in as the forklift servicing vendor. The official report from the employee was that the forklift did these things all on it's own. The one thing he had forgotten was the parking lot survailance cameras. The look on his face was precious when he found out it was on film that he jumped off the forklift with it in gear & ran to his car. I'm sure he knew batter, but that didn't stop the poor decision that cost a fellow employee his spleen.