Industrial Power Lift Truck (Forklift) Training

In a little under two weeks, you will receive training that includes practical hands-on experience. Participants will complete the following training:

National Safety Council Forklift Certification – Content covers operator training definitions from OSHA and NIOSH. National Safety Council certification card is awarded upon successful completion.

Drive Time – Participants will learn how to drive and inspect a sit-down, narrow-aisle reach, and order picker trucks. Successful completion of the program will earn the attendee a Joliet Junior College Certificate of Completion for the Industrial Power Lift Truck Program.

To register, please contact Kathy Dolosic at kdolosic@jjc.edu or (815) 280-1429.

The most common causes of fatalities include:

• forklift overturns (22 percent)
• pedestrian worker struck by forklift (20 percent)
• driver or employee crushed by forklift (16 percent)
• driver fall from forklift (9 percent)

Because of such dangers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) governs powered industrial truck safety under 29 CFR 1910.178. In 2005, citations issued for violations of this standard ranked sixth among OSHA's "Top Ten" violations. Last year OSHA cited 3,115 forklift-safety violations.

The five most common were:

• failure to ensure each operator is competent to safely operate a powered industrial truck 568 violations)
• failure to certify that each operator has been trained and evaluated (399)
• failure to take damaged powered industrial trucks out of service (350)
• failure to provide refresher training and evaluation (251)
• failure to examine powered industrial trucks before placing into service (242)

As OSHA's lists clearly show, avoiding accidents must be a top priority for any shipper that operates a warehouse or distribution center. Those lists provide one roadmap for achieving compliance.

Joliet Junior College feels the same way. A top priority within our training programs is to provide participants with the knowledge to safely inspect and operate the various lift trucks.  We don't want accidents to happen like in the video below.