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FAQ

Industrial Truck Safety Consultants, LLC provides industrial safety training for businesses in and around Houston, Texas. Our goal is help them comply with the standards set by OSHA.

What is OSHA and What do they do?
This is the U.S. government body responsible for keeping American workers safe on the job. They have the ability to investigate businesses and issue recommendations and/or fines for any safety issues they find. They publish volumes of standards for businesses to follow concerning workplace safety, and strive to hold all U.S. companies and organizations to those standards.

Who is Ultimately Responsible for Safety Training?
Your company is ultimately responsible for safety training. While many employees can see negative effects of lapsed safety (employees, operators, subcontractors, etc. can be in trouble and fined for negligence as well), OSHA holds a company responsible for what happens to its people. You may decide to cut corners on training or accident prevention, but if anything happens to your employees, it is considered a willful safety violation and will result in stiffer penalties and fines.

What can Happen to our Business if we Ignore Safety Training or Provide Poor Training?

If you do not make every reasonable effort to provide a safe working environment, employees or non-employees on your property could be seriously injured or killed. OSHA can fine you per safety violation they find, whether someone has been injured or not. Overall, the cost of training is far less than the cost of not training and gambling the future of your business on blind luck.

How Often do People get hurt on forklifts really?
Every day! Of all the workplace injuries reported every year in the U.S. to the Department of Labor, One in Six deaths in the workplace are related to forklifts. That's more than 95,000 injuries in the U.S alone and more than 100 employee's die each year on or because of forklifts. The majority of the injuries and deaths are people who are not operating the forklifts, meaning that awareness of pedestrians and other workers is seriously lacking in many businesses.

Will ITSC train our forklift operators outside of Houston?
Absolutely. Currently, our instructors are all based in Houston, but we can and will train anywhere in the United States or its territories. Travel expenses may be incurred by the client, and will be determined on a case-by-case basis, but we freely welcome business from anywhere that our services may keep workers safe.

We have dozens or hundreds of operators. It seems like training them all will be expensive. What should we do?
You may opt to only train one group of them at a time to spread out your costs, but remember, they still must be trained and evaluated before they can operate the equipment, so this may affect your production. Training a large group may be expensive, but one accident due to lack of training could result in expensive damages, lawsuits, fines, and lost-productivity costs.

 
OSHA Specific Training Requirements 
OSHA has 29 specific training / education requirements in the 1926 Construction Standards.
OSHA has 73 specific training / education requirements in the 1910 General Industry Standards. 

Training is specific to your equipment needs
Please refer to our training programs for details.

Does OSHA allow online training?
"Training shall consist of a combination of formal instruction (e.g., lecture, discussion, interactive computer learning, video tape, written material), practical training (demonstrations performed by the trainer and practical exercises performed by the trainer), and evaluation of the operator's performance in the workplace.

"The employer shall ensure that each powered industrial truck operator is competent to operate a powered industrial truck safely, as demonstrated by the successful completion of the training and evaluated specified in this paragraph (I)."

"Under the direct supervision of persons who have the knowledge, training, and experience to train operators and evaluate their competence." 
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