Rynek pracy · 14.03.1995

Powered Industrial Truck Operator Training

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing to revise the general industry safety standard for training powered industrial truck operators and to add equivalent training requirements for the maritime industries. The existing standard in part 1910 requires that only trained operators who are authorized to do so can operate powered industrial trucks and that methods of training be devised. The proposed training requirements would mandate the development of a training program that would base the amount, type, degree, and sufficiency of training on the knowledge of the trainee and the ability of the vehicle operator to acquire, retain, and use the knowledge and the skills and abilities that are necessary to safely operate the truck. A periodic evaluation of each operator's performance would be required. Refresher or remedial training also would be required, based primarily on unsafe operation, an accident or near miss, or deficiencies found in a periodic evaluation of the operator.