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Forklift
Forklift
of New Hampshire
The Safety & Health Council of NH is a membership organization consisting
of firms, associations, agencies and individuals with a common interest in injury
Forklift
Operator
prevention.
The Council was organized in 1971 and is a not-for-profit, nongovernmental,
accredited chapter of the National Safety Council. The Council works in areas of
safety and health, and provides regulatory compliance courses and informational
Safety
programs covering workplace, highway, recreational and public concerns.
All powered industrial trucks except those designed for • Determining load safety few new hires. To obtain class schedules, call our office,
earth moving (skid steer loaders and front-end loaders) check our monthly program brochure mailed to all member
• Loading dock safety
including electric pallet jacks, narrow aisle equipment, “Walkie companies, or visit our web site at www.shcnh.org.
Stackers,” order pickers, “straddle lifts,” tow tractors, and all The same three-hour operator safety course can be
sizes of sit-down types, including rough terrain machines.
Instructor Training conducted at your location at a date and time most
Who qualifies as an instructor? convenient to your scheduling requirements. The
presentation can be tailored to your type of equipment by
Why should I comply? Paragraph (l)(2)(iii) requires that all operator training and
the addition of videos specific to pallet jacks, rough terrain
Statistics from OSHA estimate that 11 deaths and 9500 evaluations must be conducted by a person who has the
trucks, narrow aisle trucks, etc. We require a minimum of
injuries and $135 million in employer costs can be saved knowledge, training and experience to train powered
ten persons per class and need a classroom setting with
annually with properly trained operators under the new industrial truck operators and evaluate their performance.
tables and a TV/VCR.
standard. Proper training can reduce the chances of: An example of a qualified trainer would be one who, by
possession of a recognized degree, certificate or professional Instructor Development Courses are offered at our
• Severe injury and associated medical expenses training center in Concord several times each year. Call for
standing, or who, by knowledge, training and experience,
• Loss of life scheduling information.
has demonstrated the ability to train and evaluate powered
• Costly property and cargo damages industrial truck operators. Although formal training is
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Lost work time
OSHA citations and fines
invaluable for teaching the principles of vehicle operation, it
is the hands-on training and evaluation that finally proves
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