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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA require that anybody operating a counterbalanced forklift receive lecture style or classroom training. They additionally require that a supervised driving program is completed as well as periodic refresher training. There is no minimum time requirement for the supervised driving or classroom training. What's more, there is no frequency mandated for the refresher training either.
A counterbalanced forklift balances its cargo with the truck's weight. The forks on a lift truck are in a fixed position; they go down and up and do not turn. The forks run parallel to the forklift's body. OSHA require that drivers who would be operating counterbalanced forklifts on the job be trained on the trucks while being in the environment which they would be using them.
Lecture style training or classroom training provides information about the truck that the operator would be driving. This training includes aspects such as weight and load capacity, height, how to charge or fuel the forklift. It covers how to gauge the time on the engine as well as any forklift specific safety information including where to stand when walking around the truck. Either written and/or oral testing is part of the classroom training. There is no minimum time requirement for the training.
The operator of a forklift would need to learn to use the equipment while being supervised. The supervised driving has to take place in an environment which resembles the current environment which the operator works in. This atmosphere must include the kind of terrain she will be traveling on, have the same pedestrian and vehicle traffic nearby, and similar surrounding structures nearby too. There is no specific minimum number of hours the operator needs to drive while being supervised.
