I understand and agree with you to a point. I believe many of us agree that managment of many companies are reluctant to invest their employee time & money for fork lift training inspite of what OSHA dictates. Unless there is an issues that arises they get relegion real fast. Secondly, how an attachment is operated by the forlift to which it is mounted can vary from one brand to the next, for an extreme example, a five function paper roll clamp. Some companies will use valves but most will use a 4 way valve w/a solenoid activated 5 function where the design can vary for the activation. It would seem to me it would be more practical that a forklift training program not only include training on the forklift via a person that is competent & a segment from the attachment manufacturer. This would minimize total timealloted for "complete" forklift training. In this thread several have suggested that the trainer should have real time experience in the seat of a forklift. I would think it would be consistent that the attachment guy also have similar experience but it has been my experience that few if any of the attachmetn field reps have had real time in the seat of a forklift and operated attachments they represent in a real material handling situation. They do indeed show videos/cds of their product performing operations. Then which trainer issues the operator qualifcation certificate or are there two issued - potentional liability & finger pointing here --- Philadelphia lawyers luv that.
I'm just bring up points that I feel need to be considered. I was with a company and my group was responsible for developing training materials, including operator training & Train-The Trainer & conducted T the T programs. Before we went to market we received a lot of good in house direction from our legal counsel. Our materials needed his rubber stamp before it was released or presetned - the ole P/L concern here..