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Originally posted by TM875
May I ask, why do we need to be trained? I work with a forklift like that almost every week (supermarked bakery - we get frozen shipments in) for the past 8ish years. I started when I was 18, and have been using that life ever since. I honestly don't see why you need certification...just common sense.
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That is to protect everyone from the schmuck that gets on the forklift and giggles like an idiot when it goes 'Vroom Vroom', then drops it in the high side and rams whatever is around them.
I've ran forklifts, wreckers and other equipment (and now own a boom truck) with no certification of any kind. someone showed me how to operate it, and I carefully went from there. Of course, I also live and work in an area I don't think OSHA even knows exists.
As for the supervisor that obviously A- isn't doing what he is responsible for doing and B- is going to play 'Cover my ass" to the best of his ability...
Do your very best to make sure he gets his ass handed to him on the way out.