{"id":894,"date":"2015-10-28T23:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/?page_id=894"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:25:00","slug":"forklift-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/forklift-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Forklift &#8211; Palomar College Employee Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"style24\" lang=\"EN\">The Environmental Health &amp; Safety Department contracts with third-party organizations to provide Fork-Lift Training <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">to Palomar College employees<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style22\">Forklift operators use forklifts (also called a lift truck, a high\/low, a stacker-truck, trailer loader, side loader, fork truck, tow-motor or a fork hoist) to pick up and transport materials.\u00a0 Forklift operators often work in construction, manufacturing and warehouses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style23\"><span class=\"style21\" lang=\"EN\">Forklifts are rated for loads at a specified maximum weight and a specified forward center of gravity. This information is located on a nameplate provided by the manufacturer, and loads must not exceed these specifications. In many jurisdictions it is illegal to remove or tamper with the nameplate without the permission of the forklift manufacturer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style23\"><span class=\"style24\" lang=\"EN\">Forklift safety is subject to a variety of standards world-wide.\u00a0 The most important standard is the ANSI B56\u2014of which stewardship has now been passed from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ansi.org\/\">American National Standards Institute<\/a> (ANSI) to the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation after multi-year negotiations.\u00a0 ITSDF is a non-profit organization whose only purpose is the promulgation and modernization of the B56 standard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style23\"><span class=\"style24\" lang=\"EN\">Other standards have been implemented in the United States by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osha.gov\/\">Occupational Safety &amp; Health Administration<\/a> (OSHA).\u00a0 Forklift Truck Operators must be trained and certified to operate forklift trucks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style23\"><span class=\"style21\">\u00a0It is a violation of Federal law for anyone UNDER 18 years of age to operate a forklift or for anyone OVER 18 years of age who is not properly trained and certified to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Health &amp; Safety Department contracts with third-party organizations to provide Fork-Lift Training to Palomar College employees.\u00a0 Forklift operators use forklifts (also called a lift truck, a high\/low, a&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/forklift-training\/\">Continue Reading<span> Forklift &#8211; Palomar College Employee Training<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-894","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6SoZz-eq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9433,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894\/revisions\/9433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}