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Google: OSHA SECTION 4 - IV. STUDIES OF ACCIDENT AND INJURY DATA AND TRAINING EFFECTIVENESS. The material is somewhat dated but gives you OSHA's thinking.

Personally, I don't feel that national accident/injury data can tell anything about training effectiveness. It's more a measure of random activity.

If the firm you are training had no injuries or fatalities a year prior to the training and had no injuries or fatalities a year after the training, how do you determine your training effectiveness?

To effectively measure training effectiveness one needs to measure known conditions/actions before the training and the known conditions/actions after the training to detemine if any desired changes have been made based on the training conducted.

Persons interested in developing their own performance measurement tool for forklift operations training effectiveness should Google: HSL/2005/03 - MEASURING WORKPLACE TRANSPORT SAFETY PERFORMANCE.