Forklift: Forklift Safety

Forklift Safety Training uses high-quality video to thoroughly teach new forklift operators all aspects of operating a forklift. Forklift Safety Training also uses dramatizations and animation to illustrate proper inspection, stability, how to handle a load, load capacity, driving procedures and other difficult concepts. After completing this course, you will earn a certificate. This course is qualified for continuing education units. You can take this course from our site or, if you have a learning management system, you can install it on your own LMS.

OSHA REGULATION: OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178.

For all forklift operators.

• Stability
  • How a forklift works
  • Rated capacity
  • The stability triangle
  • Testing the load
• Inspection
  • Before start up: basic parts
  • Before start up: battery operated trucks
  • Before start up: LP trucks
  • Before start up: fuel tanks
  • After start up
  • Inspection forms
• Operation
  • Picking up a load
  • Traveling: fork positioning
  • Traveling: poor visibility
  • Traveling: driving on inclines
  • Traveling: turning
  • Traveling: traffic rules
  • Traveling: stopping
  • Traveling: parking
  • Putting down a load: basic procedures
  • Putting down a load: stacking procedures

0.1

• Maintain forklift stability.
  • Define Rated Capacity.
  • Identify the three factors influencing the ability of a forklift.
  • Locate the rated capacity on a forklift.
  • Assess the stability of a forklift by applying the stability triangle concept.
  • Judge forklift ability to handle various loads at differing load centers.
• Perform required forklift inspections.
  • Recall forklift parts requiring inspection.
  • Locate places to check for leaking fluids.
  • Identify equipment start-up inspection procedures.
  • Explain the use of inspection forms.
• Follow safe forklift operating procedures.
  • Choose steps to properly pick up a load.
  • Explain the need to tilt the mast back to stabilize the load.
  • Agree to never raise the load while moving.
  • Choose the correct fork position while traveling.
  • Identify proper driving procedures.
  • Describe proper stacking procedures when putting down a load.
  • Identify dangers of high stacking.