Powered industrial vehicle training
How do you guys handle PIV training at your companies? We outsource ours to a third party consultant, but I wanted to see if anyone handles that training in house. For those of you that do, do you (the safety professional) conduct the training, or find a senior operator to conduct it, or tag team it with someone? Just trying to weight the cost/benefit of performing the training in house.
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So there's 2 parts to a good PIT training, classroom and in the field.
I typically handle the classroom portion, and have my warehouse manager handle the driving portion of the test. If you can do it in house, you'll definitely save some money - and it's a pretty simple thing to do.
We do ours in house because we're typically in a random location when we need it. It is pretty simple, just need to have it fully lined out.
First step: Overview with in class training. You can buy this portion or make a PowerPoint that would cover this detail. We have a PowerPoint and a paper version for field work without an office.
Second step: Inspection of the equipment. Cover the inspection form and have the employee complete a formal inspection of the specific make/model you are training to. We have a generic form for this and you can typically find one that goes with the specific PIV used (in most cases).
Third step: Hands on driving & evaluation. Ask the employee to do certain things with the PIV and evaluate them on how they conduct those commands.
Make sure to document document document!!
The safety specialist will teach "how to safely operate the PIV" and then the senior experienced employee will teach "fundamentals of PIV". In my opinion the safety specialist usually does not have enough experience to teach the fundamentals. Also make the trainee "probationary" for the first 6 months and must operate with a senior certified PIV operator nearby. PIV programs can be done multiple different ways. Have fun with it!