• Powered Industrial Trucks. OSHA, (1999). Includes downloadable outreach training materials for the powered industrial truck operator training standard.
• National Ag Safety Database (NASD)
  • Forklifts. Includes summaries of regulations and evaluations of accidents involving forklifts.
  • Forklifts and Pallet Jacks. Lists video abstracts that are relevant to agricultural safety.
• Forklift Safety. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. Provides resources and regulations for truck operator safety.
• Ten Steps to Forklift Safety. Navy Safety Center, 152 KB PDF, 3 pages. Presents ten main forklift safety rules in a downloadable training brochure.
• Office of Hazardous Materials Safety. US Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).
  • How to Use the Hazardous Materials Regulations CFR 49 Parts 100 to 185. 217 KB PDF, 30 pages. Provides a simple overview of the complex set of hazardous materials regulations and includes a compliance checklist.
  • Training Requirements. Defines a HAZMAT employee as someone who works for a HAZMAT employer and directly affects HAZMAT transportation safety, including:
    
    An owner-operator of a motor vehicle which transports HAZMAT; a person (including a self-employed person) who:
    
    • Loads, unloads, or handles HAZMAT;
    • Tests, reconditions, repairs, modifies, marks, or otherwise represents packagings as qualified for use in the transportation of HAZMAT;
    • Prepares HAZMAT for transportation;
    • Is responsible for safety of transporting HAZMAT; or
    • Operates a vehicle used to transport HAZMAT.
    
    HAZMAT employer means a company with employees involved in:
    
    • Transporting HAZMAT in commerce;
    • Causing HAZMAT to be transported or shipped in commerce; or
    • Representing, marking, certifying, selling, offering, reconditioning, testing, repairing, or modifying packagings as qualified for use in the transportation of HAZMAT.
    
    (The term "HAZMAT employer" also includes any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, a State, a political subdivision of a State, or an Indian tribe engaged in offering or transporting HAZMAT in commerce).

• Industrial Truck Association (ITA)
  • Engineering and Standards Information
  • Additional Resources. Provides links to other trade associations that serve the material handling industry.
• National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA)
  • Risk Management. The safety subcommittee provides several resources in the area of forklift safety to help dealers train employees and enhance company practices.
• Saddle Creek Corporation Provides Forklift and Golf Cart Drivers with Eye Protection. OSHA Success Story. Discusses Saddle Creek Corporation's (a warehouse and logistics company) implementation of a formal eye protection program for its forklift and golf cart operators.

• Alliance Program
  • OSHA Renews Alliance with the Industrial Truck Association. OSHA Trade News Release, (2006, April 27).
  • OSHA and International Warehouse Logistics Association Renew Alliance. OSHA Trade News Release, (2006, March 2).
  • OSHA Aligns with International Warehouse Logistics Association. OSHA Trade News Release, (2004, February 17). Focuses on protecting employees’ safety and health, including hard-to-reach and youth workers, by addressing material handling, forklift safety and Hazard Communication (HAZCOM).
  • OSHA, Industrial Truck Association form Alliance. OSHA Trade News Release, (2004, January 15). The Alliance encourages and promotes the training of operators based on the agency's operator training standard and also focuses on issues concerning youth workers.
• Find a Cooperative Program
• Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP). Identifies a select group of facilities that have designed and implemented outstanding health and safety programs. Star participants meet all VPP requirements. Merit participants have demonstrated the potential and willingness to achieve Star program status, and are implementing planned steps to fully meet all Star requirements.
  • Industries in the VPP - Federal and State Plans
  • Current Federal and State Plans Sites

The following are VPP participants that are major users of powered industrial trucks:

Current Sites in the VPP by Industry (SIC)
As of July 31, 2008