Powered Industrial Truck Safety
Information regarding the safe use of Powered Industrial Trucks (PIT).
Program Summary
The Powered Industrial Truck Safety Program provides information regarding the safe use and operator certification requirements for personnel who operate motorized pallet jacks, forklifts, order pickers, tractors or bobcats with forks, or rough-terrain forklifts.
Powered Industrial Truck Safety Program Online
View the Powered Industrial Truck Safety Program.
Program Summary
The Powered Industrial Truck Safety Program provides information regarding the safe use and operator certification requirements for personnel who operate motorized pallet jacks, forklifts, order pickers, tractors or bobcats with forks, or rough-terrain forklifts.
Powered Industrial Truck Safety Program Online
View the Powered Industrial Truck Safety Program.
Contact Information
Robin McCall-Miller, Occ. Safety Engineer
- Call 540.231.2341
- email: rmmiller@vt.edu
FAQs
- What job duties have age restrictions?
- Powered Industrial Trucks (Forklifts) Training Information
- Are manual dollies considered to be forklifts or powered industrial trucks?
- What if my forklift does not have a seatbelt?
- Am I allowed to raise people on the forklift's forks to do such tasks as changing a light bulb?
- Is there an age restriction for operating a forklift?

