Forklift - Stability and Capacity
Learning objectives
- Describe the challenges of maintaining forklift stability, the dangers of instability, and how various forklift actions affect the forklift's stability triangle.
- Identify factors, including forklift capacity, that affect stability and determine whether a forklift has the capacity to lift a given load.
- List techniques for maintaining a forklift's stability and describe what to do if your forklift starts to tip over.
Course overview
This lesson is the second lesson in a five-lesson curriculum designed to provide workers with an awareness of the federal safety regulations for operating a forklift. The curriculum serves as the formal instruction component of forklift operator training, and generally precedes hands-on operator training and site-specific training. The regulations for operating forklifts are outlined in 29 CFR 1910. This lesson will define key forklift stability concepts, explain how to calculate a forklift's capacity, and describe stability factors and guidelines.
- 15 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- English
Course Outline
- The Stability Triangle
- Stability and Capacity Factors
- Techniques for Maintaining Stability
Regulations
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart N & Materials Handling and Storage n 1910-178 Powered Industrial Trucks
- California Code of Regulations, Subchapter 7. General Industry Safety Orders, Group 4. General Mobile Equipment and Auxiliaries, Article 25. Industrial Trucks, Tractors, Haulage Vehicles, and Earthmoving Equipment, Sections 3650, 3664. Industrial Trucks, General. Operating Rules.