Every year, Forklift Training Systems conducts forklift, yard truck, and mobile elevating work platform safety training for hundreds of companies across the U.S.
Why do people choose FTS training programs? Impact. Our entire goal is providing high quality training for:
- Safe forklift operation
- Train the Trainer
- Operator training on mobile elevating work platforms (MEWP) like scissor lifts & telehandlers
- Operator training on yard trucks
- OSHA general industry operations, and more
Comprehensive training like this, from multi-year training experts, enables our attendees to do their work quickly, safely, and confidently.
FTS training programs integrate the latest industry trends & real-world experiences, sourcing critical information from:
- Years of experience training and evaluating both operators and trainers
- Years of feedback from trainees & customers
- Accident investigations
- Best practices from some of America’s largest and most successful companies
- OSHA inspections and citations from around the U.S.
- Expert witness experience from court cases involving serious injuries or death
If your main goal for operator training is to keep OSHA off your doorstep, you’re aiming too low. FTS training does help your operators (all equipment types) become fully OSHA-compliant, but we take you even further.
Successful FTS operators also:
- Understand the best reasons to work safely (protecting their families and favorite activities)
- Learn the real-life consequences people face if they make bad safety decisions
- Know how to identify and correct safety problems before the day even starts
- Gain more up-to-date knowledge even if they’re veteran operators. We frequently hear, “That was the best training we ever had.”
Training Program Types Available
| Forklift Train-The-Trainer Course | Class Overview/Description: We offer both forklift Operator (6–8 hours) and Trainer (2 day) classes to meet your needs. We can cover sit down, narrow aisle reach, elevated order picker, pallet jacks, walkie stackers and rough terrain telescopic lifts, depending on your application. Each class covers a variety of safety topics through classroom instruction, written testing, and hands-on evaluations. |
| Forklift Operator Training | Class Overview/Description: We offer forklift Operator (6–8 hours) classes to meet your needs. Each class covers a variety of safety topics through classroom instruction, written testing, and hands-on evaluations. |
| Mobile Elevating Work Platform Training | Class Overview/Description: We offer both MEWP Operator (6–8 hours) and Trainer (2 day) classes to meet your MEWP needs. All classes include selection, inspection, and use of fall protection as it applies to aerial lifts. We cover scissor lifts, articulated boom lifts and straight booms, depending on your application. The focus of the class is on the 4 big killers, tip-overs, falls, collisions and electrocutions. |
| Yard Truck Train-The-Trainer Course | Class Overview/Description: We offer both operator (8 hours) and trainer (2 day) classes to meet your yard spotter needs. Yard spotters are small semi-trucks used to move semi-trailers around in a dock setting. OSHA considers them a Powered Industrial Truck and a CDL is not required if they are used on private property. If operated on public roads, it’s required to have a CDL and the units must be DOT legal. |
| Yard Truck Operator Training | Class Overview/Description: We offer operator (8 hours) classes to meet your yard spotter needs. |
| OSHA 10-Hour General Industry Classes | Class Overview/Description: This 1.5-day class was developed by OSHA to provide important safety information on the fundamental OSHA standards. Every worker, regardless of experience, can benefit from this basic safety class. |
| OSHA 30-Hour General Industry Classes | Class Overview/Description: This 4-day class was developed by OSHA to provide important safety information on the fundamental OSHA standards. This class is geared towards persons who need more extensive safety training than would be provided by the basic 10-hour class. |
| Mobile Crane Training | Class Overview/Description: We have both operator and trainer classes for general industry and construction mobile cranes. We have various operator and trainer training for rigging and slinging, with classes ranging from 1–3 days. |
| Fixed Overhead Crane | Class Overview/Description: We have operator classes for general industry and construction fixed cranes. |
| Overhead Crane Inspection & Maintenance | Class Overview/Description: We offer 11 specialized classes in these areas, with classes ranging from 1–3 days. |
| Lock Out / Tag Out (LOTO) | Class Overview/Description: This 4-hour class trains employees to use the proper LOTO procedures. Topics covered include awareness, attitude, and actions; when, where, and why to use LOTO; proper locking/tagging procedures; and communication. |
| Machine Guarding | Class Overview/Description: This 4-hour class covers the types of machine guarding, the importance of safeguarding places where most machine hazards occur, and safety control devices. |
| Fall Protection Training | Class Overview/Description: This 4-hour class teaches students about methods of eliminating, controlling, and preventing fall hazards. It addresses the requirements detailed in the OSHA Fall Protection Standard, 29 CFR 1926; Subpart M. |
| Supervisor Liability Training | Class Overview/Description: This 1-hour class is for any supervisor in any industry and is offered remotely via Zoom or Microsoft Teams. We use real examples to show the potential legal liability of being a supervisor, especially if you aren’t doing the right things to protect your employees. |
| Confined Space Entry | Class Overview/Description: This 4-hour class complies with OSHA standard 29 CFR 1910.146, Permit-Required Confined Spaces. We cover topics such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permit-Required Confined Spaces standard, Non-permit versus Permit-Required Confined Spaces, and Hazard Recognition, Evaluation, and Control (physical hazards, health hazards, hazardous atmospheres, oxygen-deficient atmospheres, and oxygen-enriched atmospheres). |
To sign up for any program, Contact FTS with the program name you want.