Forklift - Safe Driving
Learning objectives
- Recall your responsibilities, and those of your employer, for ensuring safe forklift operation and maneuverability at your facility.
- Outline techniques for operating a forklift on challenging surfaces and in enclosed spaces.
- Identify the roles of operators, pedestrians, and safety managers for ensuring pedestrian safety near forklift operations.
Course overview
This lesson is the fourth lesson in a five-lesson curriculum designed to provide workers with an awareness of the federal safety regulations for operating a forklift. The curriculum serves as the formal-instruction component of forklift operator training, and generally precedes hands-on operator training and site-specific training. The regulations for operating a forklift are outlined in 29 CFR 1910. This lesson will present some forklift safety basics, as well as information on how to drive a forklift safely around pedestrians, on challenging surfaces, and in enclosed spaces.
- 17 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- English
Course Outline
- Safe Driving Basics
- Challenging Workplace Conditions
Regulations
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart N n Materials Handling and Storage n 178 Powered Industrial Trucks
- California Code of Regulations, Subchapter 7. General Industry Safety Orders, Group 4. General Mobile Equipment and Auxiliaries, Article 25. Industrial Trucks, Tractors, Haulage Vehicles, and Earthmoving Equipment, Sections 3650, 3664. Industrial Trucks, General. Operating Rules