Migna Safety Solutions

General Industry · Self-Paced · about 55 min total

Forklift Operator Theory (Powered Industrial Trucks)

Intermediate · Course MIG-GI-207

The classroom half of operator training under 29 CFR 1910.178 — stability, capacity, safe travel, and fueling/charging.

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This is a Migna Safety Solutions course with a Migna certificate of completion. It is not OSHA Outreach Training and does not include a Department of Labor card.

Hands-on training required. This online course provides the required classroom/knowledge instruction only. Completing it alone does not qualify or certify you to operate or use the equipment. As OSHA requires, your employer must also provide hands-on training and evaluate you on the specific equipment in your workplace — for respirators, this includes a medical evaluation and a fit test — before you are qualified.

OSHA forklift operator training has two halves: formal instruction and hands-on practical training with an evaluation. This course delivers the formal instruction — the seven truck classes and how each behaves, the stability triangle and the physics of tip-over, the data plate and load center math, attachments and their capacity penalty, the pre-use inspection, travel and pedestrian rules, ramps and docks, trailer and railcar loading, elevating personnel, LP/battery/diesel hazards, carbon monoxide, and exactly what certification requires. IMPORTANT: completing this course alone does NOT certify you to operate. Your employer must provide hands-on training and evaluate your operation of the specific truck, in your workplace, before certifying you — and re-evaluate at least every three years. Issues a Migna certificate of completion for the theory portion.

What you are buying

37 min
Enforced seat time
2
Modules
11
Lessons
3
Interactive exercises
34
Quiz questions

Seat time is enforced on our servers. The clock is calculated from signed progress events rather than in your browser, so it cannot be sped up — a certificate that states 37 minutes of training means it. The 54 minutes shown above is that gate plus the quizzes and final exam, which are not on the clock.

Retraining due every 3 years

This interval comes from the standard the course is written against, not from us. The date is printed on the certificate, and we email a reminder before it lapses.

Written against 20 published standards

Every citation below appears in the course content and is checked against the current text of the rule before publication.

  • 1910.106
  • 1910.178
  • 1910.178(a)(4)
  • 1910.178(a)(5)
  • 1910.178(a)(6)
  • 1910.178(c)
  • 1910.178(g)
  • 1910.178(l)
  • 1910.178(l)(1)(i)
  • 1910.178(l)(3)(i)
  • 1910.178(l)(3)(ii)
  • 1910.178(l)(4)
  • 1910.178(l)(5)
  • 1910.178(m)(12)
  • 1910.178(m)(3)
  • 1910.178(m)(5)
  • 1910.178(p)(1)
  • 1910.178(q)(1)
  • 1910.178(q)(7)
  • 29 CFR 1910.178

What You Will Be Able To Do

The course is built to reach these, and the quizzes are written to confirm them.

  • Identify the powered industrial truck classes and state how a truck's design affects where it may be operated
  • Explain the stability triangle and describe how load weight, height and center of gravity affect the risk of a tip-over
  • Read a data plate and determine whether a given load is within the truck's rated capacity
  • Perform the pre-operation inspection and state what defects take a truck out of service
  • State what 29 CFR 1910.178(l) requires for operator evaluation and when re-evaluation is triggered

What's Covered

  1. Module 1: Trucks, Stability, Capacity & Inspection

    • The Seven Classes and How Each One Behaves
    • The Data Plate, Load Center, and Attachments
    • Travel, Pedestrians, Docks, and Elevating Personnel

  2. Module 2: Power Sources, Environment & Certification

    • Refueling, Charging, and Atmospheric Hazards