Lift truck safety basics

Article Abstract:

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard 1910.178 provides general safety guidelines for forklift operation. On a general sense, forklifts must be treated just like any other motor vehicle on wheels. Terrain and driver conditions affect the forklift truck in much the same way cars are affected. It is therefore important to slow down on turns and observe capacity payload limits. The truck's vertical mast can be tilted backward to balance loads, and forward for load pick-up. Cargos must likewise be positioned in ways that enhance balance.

Industrial Truck, Tractor, Trailer, and Stacker Machinery Manufacturing, Industrial trucks and tractors, Electric Forklift Trucks, Nonelectric Forklift Trucks, Standards, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Forklift trucks

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Jump start your safety training: 10 ways to drive your message home

Article Abstract:

Safety training programs need not be boring. An effective presentation begins with a plan. Set goals to quantify what the lecture should achieve. Illustrations, film clips, charts, etc. help the audience visualize abstract concepts. Instead of explaining a complicated process, it is easier for the lecturer, and more interesting for the audience, to go and see how a certain machine works. Also, getting the audience to participate physically in the lecture will increase their recall of the concepts taken up.

Methods, Employee safety education, Employee training, Employee trainers

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All charged up: will deregulation spark new safety challenges for electrical utilities?

Article Abstract:

Unicom safety and hygiene director Lucy A Elam firmly believes that the deregulation of the electricity industry will not affect the performance of her company. She stresses that the stiff competition that will arise due to the deregulation will not hinder Unicom from addressing public safety issues. She also says that company's educational program to promote public awareness about safety will also help the company attract and retain customers.

Electric Utilities, Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Electric services, Interview, Unicom Corp., Deregulation, Elam, Lucy A.

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