This website stores data such as cookies to enable important site functionality including analytics, targeting, and personalization. View our privacy policy.

ISHN logo
search
cart
facebook twitter linkedin youtube
  • Sign In
  • Create Account
  • Sign Out
  • My Account
ISHN logo
  • NEWS
    • VENDOR NEWS & CASE STUDIES
    • TODAY'S NEWS
  • PRODUCTS
    • Featured Products
  • TOPICS
    • Environmental Health and Safety
    • Facility Safety
    • FR Protection
    • Government Regulations
    • Health
    • Industrial Hygiene
    • Occupational Safety
    • Oil & Gas
    • PPE
    • Transportation Safety
    • Vendor News & Case Studies
    • More Topics
  • CONSTRUCTION
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • COLUMNS
    • Best Practices
    • Editorial Comments
    • Leading Safety
    • Safety Analytics
    • Safety Culture
    • Safety Talk
    • Training Strategies
  • EDUCATION
  • MULTIMEDIA
    • Bulwark FR Quiz
    • J. J. Keller OSHA Safety Training Requirements Quiz
    • Videos
    • Webinars
    • Podcasts
  • MORE
    • Buyer's Guide
    • Polls
    • eNewsletters
    • Events
    • ISHN Store
    • Sponsor Insights
    • Convention Companion
  • EMAGAZINE
    • eMagazine
    • Archived Issues
    • Contact
    • Advertise
    • Subscribe
Home » Keywords: » forklift safety

Items Tagged with 'forklift safety'

ARTICLES

visual workplace safety flooring.png

Virtual projection helps adhere to facility safety guidelines

Rhonda Kovera
January 26, 2023
No Comments

OSHA developed several forklift safety guidelines to help protect drivers and pedestrians. As part of their requirements, pedestrian pathways should be clearly marked and free of obstruction. 


Read More
ISHN0821-HalenHardyImage.jpg

Be aware of both DOT and OSHA regulations for forklift operator training

Karen Hamel
August 27, 2021
No Comments
Not only does OSHA have regulations for the forklifts themselves, they also have specific requirements for forklift operators. The Powered Industrial Truck Standard outlines the topics that must be included during training, as well as requirements for refresher trainings.
Read More
forklift safety

Safety tips for forklift truck drivers

Clive Sury
May 6, 2020
No Comments

A forklift is a powered truck used to carry, lift, or tier materials. The vehicles, also called pallet trucks, fork trucks, or lift trucks, can be powered by combustion engines or electric battery and are extremely useful and time-efficient for completing laborious construction projects. However, they can also be dangerous if not safely and correctly operated. Here are several safety tips that forklift truck drivers should adhere to each time they operate the vehicle.


Read More
Consider ergonomics to reduce materials handling

Consider ergonomics to reduce materials handling

Craig Moberg
April 1, 2020
No Comments

Warehouse hazards are often the cause of workplace accidents. Choosing the correct type of storage will greatly reduce the potential hazard in a facility. The correct storage medium will reduce improper lifting, reaching and travel distance to retrieve an item.


Read More
warehouse worker

Safety and security in warehouses: What to know

Kayla matthews
Kayla Matthews
February 18, 2020
No Comments
Warehouses are home to all sorts of technology and machinery, but their most valuable occupant is also perhaps the most vulnerable: human employees. When it comes to ensuring the safety of warehouse workers, shortcuts aren't an option. Warehousing has a higher fatal injury rate than the national average across all industries.
Read More
OSHA enforcement

Cookie factory injury leads to citations

February 17, 2020
No Comments
OSHA has cited a New York cookie maker for exposing employees to falls and other hazards at the Ferndale, New York, facility. Nonni’s Foods LLC, manufacturer of premium cookies, faces $221,257 in penalties. OSHA opened an inspection on Aug. 22, 2019, after learning that an employee fell on Aug. 7, 2019, and was hospitalized.
Read More
Automated loading dock equipment

Automated loading dock equipment a boon for aging workforce

Eliminate backbreaking manual labor
Chad Dillavou
November 1, 2019
No Comments

America’s workforce is aging. According to AARP, nearly half of new jobs in the U.S. last year were filled by workers 55 years or older. Due largely to ongoing labor shortages, this disproportionately small demographic accounted for more than 1.4 million of the 2.9 million new jobs in 2018, many of them in the fast-growing sector of warehousing and distribution centers.


Read More
fire image

Four worker fatalities lead to $1M+ fine for Ill. company

October 28, 2019
No Comments
An OSHA investigation into the deaths of four employees of an Illinois chemical plant has resulted in more than a million dollars in proposed penalties against AB Specialty Silicones LLC. The company has been cited for a dozen willful federal safety violations in the explosion and fire at its Waukegan facility on May 3, 2019 that claimed the lives of four workers.
Read More
Powered Industrial Trucks
2019 top standards- OSHA Most Frequently Violated Standards

OSHA powered industrial truck standard

Powered Industrial Trucks (1910.178)
January 4, 2019
No Comments
OSHA statistics indicate that there are roughly 85 forklift fatalities and 34,900 serious injuries each year, with 42 percent of the forklift fatalities from the operators being crushed by a tipping vehicle.
Read More
US map

OSH across the USA: LOTO, forklift safety violations

October 5, 2018
No Comments
Here’s a look at recent OSHA and state-level OSHA enforcement activities across the U.S., from Hawaii to Connecticut, in construction, manufacturing, food processing and other industries.
Read More
More Articles Tagged with 'forklift safety'
Subscribe For Free!
  • eMagazine Subscriptions
  • ISHN eNewsletter & Other eNews Alerts
  • Online Registration
  • Manage My Preferences
  • Subscription Customer Service

More Videos

Sponsored Content

Sponsored Content is a special paid section where industry companies provide high quality, objective, non-commercial content around topics of interest to the ISHN audience. All Sponsored Content is supplied by the advertising company. Interested in participating in our Sponsored Content section? Contact your local rep.

close
  • Toxic gasses
    Sponsored byThermo Fisher Scientific

    Overcoming challenges in trace analysis of toxic gases in the air around us

  • Honeywell Construction Fall Protection

    It’s construction season: Time for a refresher on worksite safety protocols

Popular Stories

dangerous jobs

The 10 most dangerous jobs in the U.S.

PK safety

8 steps to a lockout-tagout procedure

pregnant worker safety

How to interpret the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

4/27 ISHN Editorial Webinar

Events

April 18, 2023

How to Build a Diverse, Inclusive Workplace: Preventing Discrimination by Promoting Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion must be embraced throughout an entire organization in order to produce positive long-term results. Leadership efforts create a solid foundation on which the rest of the company’s efforts can stand.

April 27, 2023

Electric Shock & Arc Flash Hazards – Facts, Not Fiction!

In order to justify energized work tasks, the dangerous hazards of electric shock and arc flash need to be identified and eliminated.

View All Submit An Event

Poll

Safety Culture

Does your workplace emphasize goals and performance recognition, or does your workplace have a compliance-focused safety program? Or both?
View Results Poll Archive

Products

Occupational Safety and Health: Fundamental Principles and Philosophies

Occupational Safety and Health: Fundamental Principles and Philosophies

See More Products

4/18 ISHN JJ Keller Webinar

Get our new eMagazine delivered to your inbox every month.

Stay in the know on the latest safety trends.

SUBSCRIBE TODAY
  • Resources
    • List Rental
    • Safety A-Z
    • Custom Content & Marketing Services
    • Market Research
    • Web Exclusives
    • Privacy Policy
  • Want More
    • Connect
    • Subscribe
    • Survey And Sample
  • ADVERTISE WITH US
    • Advertise
  • Privacy
    • PRIVACY POLICY
    • TERMS & CONDITIONS
    • DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
    • PRIVACY REQUEST
    • ACCESSIBILITY
    • UPDATE MY PREFERENCES

Copyright ©2023. All Rights Reserved BNP Media.

Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing