Protect your team with Forklift Safety: Dynamics and Balance training focused on the fundamentals of the Stability Triangle and Stability Pyramid.
Forklift Safety: Dynamics and Balance prepares employees to recognize relevant risks, responsibilities, and safe work expectations. Key outcomes include the ability to explain the fundamentals of the Stability Triangle and Stability Pyramid, describe anticipate and adjust for shifts in a forklift's center of gravity, and enhance stability through strategic load placement and weight distribution. The material also helps learners manage dynamic stability while navigating slopes or making quick movements. Practical examples connect the subject to routine tasks, expected procedures, and decisions employees may need to make on the job. Learners finish with a clearer understanding of what to look for, how to respond, and when to raise a concern or seek additional guidance.
Forklift stability training is for forklift operators in warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing plants and construction sites, plus the supervisors and trainers who evaluate them. Logistics staff who work around forklifts also benefit from knowing why trucks tip and loads fall. That knowledge helps them spot unsafe handling before someone gets hurt.
OSHA's powered industrial truck standard, 29 CFR 1910.178(l), requires employers to train and evaluate every forklift operator. Required topics include vehicle stability, capacity, load handling and stacking, and operating on ramps and sloped surfaces. Formal instruction must be combined with hands-on practice and an evaluation in the actual workplace.
The forklift stability triangle is formed by the two front wheels and the rear axle pivot point of a counterbalanced forklift. The combined center of gravity of the truck and its load must stay inside that triangle. If the center of gravity moves outside, the forklift can tip forward or sideways.
Forklifts tip over when the combined center of gravity moves outside the stability triangle. Common causes include turning too fast, braking hard, traveling with a raised load, exceeding rated capacity, turning on ramps and driving across slopes. Off-center or unsecured loads shift the center of gravity even further.
Forklift operators need a performance evaluation at least once every three years under OSHA rules. Refresher training is also required after an accident or near miss, unsafe operation, or a poor evaluation. A move to a different truck type or changed workplace conditions also triggers refresher training. The 10-minute stability video is available in English, Spanish and French.
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