• Alliance Program
  • OSHA, Industrial Truck Association form Alliance. Trade News Release, (2004, January 15). The Alliance encourages and promotes the training of operators based on the agency's operator training standard and also focuses on issues concerning youth workers.
  • Latest Alliance Unites OSHA, NIOSH and the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association. Trade News Release, (2004, June 7). OSHA's Alliance with NWPCA and NIOSH will focus on ergonomics, reducing and preventing exposure to hazards associated with the use of powered industrial trucks, and pallet assembly and disassembly equipment in the workplace.
  • National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association forms Alliance with OSHA. Trade News Release, (2003, July 28). Focuses on forklift safety, recordkeeping issues, lifting strain.
• Find a Cooperative Program
• Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP). VPP participants are a select group of facilities that have designed and implemented outstanding health and safety programs. Star participants meet all VPP requirements. Merit participants have demonstrated the potential and willingness to achieve Star program status, and are implementing planned steps to fully meet all Star requirements.
  • Industries in the VPP - Federal and State Plans
  • Current Federal and State Plans Sites

The following are VPP participants that are major users of powered industrial trucks:

Current Sites in the VPP by Industry (SIC)
As of May 31, 2003

• Preventing Injuries and Deaths of Workers Who Operate or Work Near Forklifts. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Publication No. 2001-109, (2001, June). Includes information on forklift fatality data, current standards, case reports, recommendations, and instructs workers in the steps they can take to protect themselves. 
• Powered Industrial Trucks. OSHA, Office of Training and Education (OTE), (1999). Includes downloadable outreach training materials for the powered industrial truck operator training standard.
• National Ag Safety Database (NASD)
  • Forklifts. Includes summaries of regulations and evaluations of accidents involving forklifts.
  • Forklifts and Pallet Jacks. Lists video abstracts that are relevant to agricultural safety.
• Forklift Safety. Washington Industrial Health and Safety Act Services (WISHA). Provides resources and regulations for truck operator safety.
• Ten Steps to Forklift Safety. Navy Safety Center, 152 KB PDF, 3 pages. Presents ten main forklift safety rules in a downloadable training brochure.
• Office of Hazardous Materials Safety. US Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).
  • How to Use the Hazardous Materials Regulations CFR 49 Parts 100 to 185. 217 KB PDF, 30 pages. Provides a simple overview of the complex set of hazardous materials regulations and includes a compliance checklist.
  • Training Requirements Under the Hazardous Materials Regulations
    
    A HAZMAT employee is someone who works for a HAZMAT employer and directly affects HAZMAT transportation safety, including:
    An owner-operator of a motor vehicle which transports HAZMAT; a person (including a self-employed person) who:
    • Loads, unloads, or handles HAZMAT;
    • Tests, reconditions, repairs, modifies, marks, or otherwise represents packagings as qualified for use in the transportation of HAZMAT;
    • Prepares HAZMAT for transportation;
    • Is responsible for safety of transporting HAZMAT; or
    • Operates a vehicle used to transport HAZMAT.
    HAZMAT employer means a company with employees involved in:
    • Transporting HAZMAT in commerce;
    • Causing HAZMAT to be transported or shipped in commerce; or
    • Representing, marking, certifying, selling, offering, reconditioning, testing, repairing, or modifying packagings as qualified for use in the transportation of HAZMAT.
    (The term "HAZMAT employer" also includes any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, a State, a political subdivision of a State, or an Indian tribe engaged in offering or transporting HAZMAT in commerce).

• Industrial Truck Association (ITA)
  • Engineering and Standards Information
  • Other trade associations that serve the material handling industry
• National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA)
  • Risk Management. The safety subcommittee provides several resources in the area of forklift safety to help dealers train employees and enhance company practices.

• Longshoring and Marine Terminals: Hazard and Abatement Summaries. Consists of guidesheets that address the most frequent sources of fatalities in the maritime cargo handling industry, including forklift truck operations.
• Materials Handling and Storage. Publication 2236, (2002) 559 KB PDF, 41 pages.
• Servicing Single-Piece and Multi-Piece Rim Wheels. Publication 3086, (1998), 443 KB PDF, 29 pages.
• Shipyard Industry. Publication 2268, (1998), 561 KB PDF, 220 pages.
• Worker Safety Series - Warehousing. Pocket Guide. Also available as a 277 KB PDF, 15 pages. Includes a section on forklift hazards and solutions.
• Public Warehousing and Storage. Industry Profile. Also available as a 1 MB PDF, 11 pages. Includes information related to forklifts in the public warehousing and storage industry.