ECN Forum Forums Safety Discussion and News Occupational Safety Discussion Forklifts as personnel lifts??

Mike I am not sure I follow you here.

Your comparing a laborer who occasionally uses a fork lift to a trained operator.

Here a fork lift operator will often spend their entire work day behind the wheel,

Of course crane operators have more training than forklift operators.

But I am not expecting a forklift operator to operate a crane. I am expecting a forklift operator to operate a fork lift.

It has been my experience once a person has spent weeks, months...maybe years pulling and placing pallets from trucks and shelves that they have mastered the skills to put me in the air.

What will worry me is when one of the maintenance mechanics in the plant is chosen to drive me around. Usually the maintenance man knows how to run the machine but is not smooth with it as they don't spend 40 hours a week behind the wheel.

So we are clear this is the type of machine I mean.




Most?

The signals you would use controlling a fork lift are pretty basic. No winches or rotation etc.


[This message has been edited by iwire (edited 10-31-2006).]