Forklift Certification of Temporary Employees

What are the training standards for temporary employees?
How can Forklift Tech help train temporary employees?

What are the training standards for temporary employees?

Please see the OSHA Directorate of Enforcement Programs letter of 4/10/2000.

The temporary agency supplying the employees will:

1. Advise temporary employees that the operation of a forklift without proper training is a violation of the law, and could result in unsafe practices, injuries, and civil penalties.

2. Require that the host employer identify, beforehand, whether a temporary employee will be required/expected to operate a forklift.

3. Require that, if untrained on forklifts, the employee notify the temporary agency should the employee be requested to operate a forklift by the host employer.

4. Require that the host employer provide all training and evaluation records on forklifts to the temporary employee before the leased employee be permitted to operate forklifts.

5. Require that copies of forklift certifications be provided to the temporary agency by the host employer and kept in the employees records.

How can Forklift Tech help to train temporary employees ?

The host company which leases the temporary employees is required to perform the training and certification of its forklift operators.

We recommend that the temporary agency Register at ForkliftTech.Com, but rather than use the name of the temporary agency, use the name of the host employer, adding (Temp Employees) to the company name. Purchase subscriptions, create student identities, assign subscriptions to these students, have the students log in and complete the on line portion of the training.

When the employee reports to the host employer, it will only be necessary for a host host company Forklift Trainer perform the hands on training of the new temporary employee.

If the host employer is given the Administrator login information, created by the temporary agency, the host employer Trainer can record the hands on training through the website and the temporary employee is now certified by the host company. The host employer can print certificates of completion and print all training records. With the online training already completed, the host company can certify the temporary employee in only a few minutes.

Since the host employer and the temporary agency will have the same Administrator login information, both parties can keep track of all training. The temporary agency can print all records of forklift training at any time by logging in as the Administrator.