Safety Knights

He has to be evaluated by a qualified evaluator in his workplace, so you have one of two options:

(1) Have a qualified third-party trainer/evaluator come in and evaluate him in your workplace; OR
(2) Determine (or train) another qualified PIT operator so that you will have two internal operators to do the evaluations on each other (if they're qualified to do so).

Both Drew's suggestions work well, or if you are qualified you can do it! I trained a team of experienced PIT drivers to do it! I had 200 PIT operators in my plant of 400. I had a team of 15 with at least 4 per shift. Worked GREAT!

What is your training cycle. Do you keep up with everyone's anniversary date of initial PIT training. I use to do it that way. We would have to do several every month! With 200 it was a hassle to keep up with them all! I kept asking production why we needed so many PIT operators when we only had about 20 PITS and 400 employees! But they insisted they needed that many!

Now I was also supposed to be an HR Manager, Divisional Safety Coordinator (10 plants), and our site H&S Manager! I admit it I struggled! Finally, with Lean it opened me up to thinking outside the box! So what I did is I picked a month of the year as PIT Training Month. But that month would come up 33 months after the last PIT Month. We would then have 3 months to evaluate EVERYONE before the 3 year anniversary! For new employees that had been trained shortly before this training period they even got retrained again so that they were on the same cycle as everyone else!!!!

In that way I only had to train a big slug of people every 33 months! We would still do some retraining if someone's skills were questioned, new equipment, and of course new job assignment. It was work the 3 month training period, but I had 15 people doing it! Worked GREAT!!!! Also with 15 people spending so much time training Production finally decided they only needed about 100 PIT operators, which I still thought was high, but a win is a win!

We use the practical check-off sheet used for new operator training.
Additional information to help guide you...

Standard Interpretations - Competency of powered industrial truck trainers; training must be truck- and site-specific.

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2000-04-10-0# :~:text=%C2%A71910.178(l)(2,train%2Dthe%2Dtrainer%20course.

§1910.178(l)(2)(iii) requires that all operator training and evaluation be conducted by a person who has the knowledge, training, and experience to train powered industrial truck operators and evaluate their competence. There is no requirement that the trainer attend a train-the-trainer course.

Standard Interpretations - PIT operator's triennial performance evaluation requires demonstration of both knowledge and skills for safe operation of vehicle.

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2005-08-01

The "evaluation" of "performance" required by the standard cannot be met by a written exam alone. A written exam by itself does not indicate whether the operator is operating the powered industrial truck safely. In most cases, the person conducting the evaluation would do two things: first, observe the powered industrial truck operator during normal operations to determine if the operator is performing safely, and second, ask pertinent questions to ensure that the operator has the knowledge or experience needed to operate a truck safely. In some cases, because of the danger or complexity of the operation, the extent of the change in conditions, or the operator's need for additional skills, the evaluation will need to be lengthier and more detailed. The triennial evaluation ensures that the operator has retained the necessary knowledge and skills for safe operation of the vehicle. Therefore, a written exam alone would not be adequate to ensure that the operator has retained the necessary skills for safe vehicle operation.

Good Luck, Bob