Powered Industrial Trucks - Operators Overview

This 30-minute Powered Industrial Truck training course is designed to improve your understanding of health and safety hazards and protocols for operating powered industrial trucks.

It is highly recommended that operators understand the powered equipment, inspection protocols, load handling, and refueling procedures due to the high risk of injuries and even fatalities involved while operating powered industrial trucks. Operators must also be aware of common accidents and injuries and how to address such accidents by adopting the best safety measures and guidelines. Whether you’re operating forklifts, electric pallet jacks, tow motors, tuggers, or any powered equipment, this course provides the necessary training and knowledge required to prevent accidents and maintain the best health and safety standards for all powered truck operators. Read the course objectives to identify key learning points that cover all the necessary knowledge and training for powered truck operators.

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Learning Objectives

Understanding different classifications and variants of powered industrial trucks is crucial to understanding equipment-specific safety requirements and procedures.
Understanding the most common health and safety risks involved with powered industrial trucks includes common causes of injuries and fatalities and how to handle such events.
Understanding the process and protocols of pre-operation inspection plays a decisive role in ensuring safe and risk-free operations.

Best practices, techniques, and procedures to ensure safe powered truck operation, including stable load handling and maneuvering.
Safety guidelines and procedures for refueling, charging, or replacing a battery.
Rules and guidelines for safely stopping or parking the powered truck and ending a shift.

Course Outline

1. Introduction
1. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. Learning Objectives
4. What Is a Powered Industrial Truck?
5. Types and Classes of Powered Industrial Trucks
2. Safety and Pre-use Inspections
1. Learning Activity: Causes of Forklift Fatalities
2. Why Property Damage Matters
3. Pre-Operation Inspections
4. Inspecting Operator Controls
5. Inspecting Brake System
6. Inspecting Brake System, continued
7. Inspecting Steering and Lift Controls
8. More Pre-Operation Inspections
9. Learning Activity: Safe or Unsafe?
3. Stability
1. The Stability Triangle
2. Line of Action
3. Center of Gravity
4. Learning Activity: Load Height, Speed and Stability
4. PIT Information
1. Data Plates and Markings
2. Learning Activity: Why Data Plates Matter

5. Handling Loads
1. Picking Up a Load
2. Handling Loads
3. Handling Loads: Drive Slowly
4. Handling Lifts: Surface Conditions
5. Trailers and Railcars
6. Knowledge Check: Fork Position
7. Knowledge Check: Ramps
8. Knowledge Check: Lifting and Lowering a Load
9. Knowledge Check: Handling a Tip-Over
6. Refueling, Batteries, and Stopping Lift
1. Refueling, Changing and Charging Batteries
2. Refueling, Changing and Charging Batteries
3. Stopping Lift and End of Shift
4. Knowledge Check: Safe Operation
5. Knowledge Check: Unattended Lift
7. Conclusion
1. Conclusion

Training Process

The 30-min Powered Industrial Trucks - Operators Overview training course is an online course that enables busy working class professionals to gain unrestricted access to complete training material including interactive modules, video lessons, and guides. It gives you the feasibility to prepare your study plan according to your schedule and learn at your own pace with a final assessment to ensure full comprehension of the material.