Explore the Material Handling Ecosystem
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Organizations to Explore
Organizations to Explore |
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Industrial Truck AssociationRepresents industrial-truck makers and component suppliers and supports safety, technical work and industry statistics. Membership is evidence of participation in the association, not approval of every product or training course. |
Industrial Truck Standards Development FoundationAdministers B56 industrial-truck standards covering design, operation, maintenance and testing. Its stated scope excludes road vehicles and earthmoving equipment. |
Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationPublishes US powered-industrial-truck requirements. Employers must train and evaluate operators for the truck and workplace. The rule requires evaluation at least every three years and refresher training for specified problems or changes; it does not simply require every worker to repeat a course every three years. Check the rules that apply to the workplace and state. |
Alta Equipment GroupSells, rents and maintains forklifts and offers operator and instructor training. Employer duties still apply after a course. For US workplaces, distinguish the required three-year operator evaluation from refresher training triggered by unsafe operation or changed conditions. |
Equipment DepotSells and rents forklifts and aerial equipment, provides repairs and teaches operators through classroom and practical work. It also trains instructors. The company identifies itself as part of Logisnext Americas. Course completion does not replace an employer’s duty to assess the worker and workplace. |
MHIRepresents material-handling and supply-chain businesses and publishes research and educational resources. Its scope is broader than forklifts. |
Warehousing Education and Research CouncilProvides warehouse research, benchmarking and professional education within MHI. |
European Materials Handling FederationRepresents European materials-handling industries and includes an industrial-truck group. Its work covers technical and policy issues across a wider equipment sector. It does not act as a workplace safety regulator. |
CSA GroupPublishes lift-truck safety standards and related guidance. Its 2025–2026 report describes CSA B335:25 and pre-use inspection videos. The full paid standard was not reviewed. |
International Organization for StandardizationDevelops international industrial-truck standards through ISO/TC 110. Its public scope covers design, operation, maintenance and testing of hand- and power-operated industrial trucks, with exclusions for road and earthmoving vehicles. The committee page establishes its remit; it does not provide the full text of every standard. |
Health and Safety ExecutiveProvides lift-truck safety guidance for Great Britain. Employers must ensure suitable training and competence, whether teaching in house or using an outside provider. HSE distinguishes basic, job-specific and workplace familiarization training. It gives no fixed universal interval for refresher training; monitoring and changed risks matter. |
WorkSafeBCPublishes British Columbia’s mobile-equipment rules. Section 16.43 names standards for lift-truck design and use and requires operator training under clause 6 of CSA B335-15. Different equipment types and dates can affect the applicable standard; the current publication date of a standard alone does not settle the legal requirement. |
Mentor TrainingTeaches forklift operators and instructors at customer sites and training centres. An accreditor and a company that directly teaches operators serve different roles. |
How They Connect
How They Connect |
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US Powered Industrial Truck Rule — Operator Training ProvidersApplies to: Operator Training Providers. |
Standards & Rules
Standards & Rules |
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US Powered Industrial Truck Rule29CFR1910.178 includes training and evaluation duties for employers in scope. |