ILGer
12-19-2005, 01:38 PM
I worked for other companies and they always made everybody go out to a 3rd party forklift trainer to get a certification. My new company is smaller but they do their own training, test, and give out certificates.
To certify forklift drivers do you have to be accredited or approved by anybody to do the training and certification? I'm just looking out for my new company. The training is good but before I've always been trained by the forklift distributor or something like that. Is my new company in the clear with OSHA and their Forklift training requirments.
bears00
12-19-2005, 09:24 PM
OSHA sets out guidelines for the training, but does not give any qualification requirements for the trainers.
Pattymd
12-20-2005, 06:33 AM
I have a friend of mine who is the Safety Manager at a mfg firm and actually does this training. He advises the following:
cfr1910.178(iii) All operator training and evaluation shall be conducted by persons who have the knowledge, training and experience to train operators..blah blah. As long as the person training these people can demonstrate to OSHA that they are qualified, ie: 5 years experience, and can answer OSHAs questions, then they don't need a certificate that says they are qualified, but they do have to follow OSHA guidelines for training the drivers. That said, it's always a good thing to have a train the trainer certificate in the file cause OSHA loves paperwork.
deedeeparker
10-19-2007, 10:39 AM
I worked for other companies and they always made everybody go out to a 3rd party forklift trainer to get a certification. My new company is smaller but they do their own training, test, and give out certificates.
To certify forklift drivers do you have to be accredited or approved by anybody to do the training and certification? I'm just looking out for my new company. The training is good but before I've always been trained by the forklift distributor or something like that. Is my new company in the clear with OSHA and their Forklift training requirments.
The training has to be in Compliance with OSHA standards, and the hands-on training portion has to be done by someone Certified to drive a forklift . If you want OSHA not to take a second look at your company, definetly hire Safety Professionals to so the Training!
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