National LIFTOR offers a standardized set of procedures for ensuring that your forklift operators are productive and free of injury or collateral damage.  The key components of the National LIFTOR process are customized by each specific class, make and/or model of vehicle, and by the specific hazard that exist in each industrial site work environment. 

 The customization is performed by the industrial site user, who subscribes to, and works with, a National LIFTOR Registrar.   The National LIFTOR Registrar acts as an expert guide and consultant until the targeted operators are trained by your employees and certified as to their skill. The operator certification process is rigorous in that it requires the operator to demonstrate productive and safe forklift maneuvering under live or high fidelity simulated conditions. The operator training and certification testing is performed one-on-one, except where group informational meetings are necessary. Training and on-truck performance testing is done by supervisors at the user’s industrial site.  Specially trained peer-operators may be assigned as instructors.  

 Industrial site users pay a licensing fee for a limited time of their choice.  One, two, or three year increments are common. Their only other cost is for workshop registration, and optional on-site use of expert consultation services when requested by the user.  All components are licensed to the user, who never pays any additional fee to use them during the term of license.

The National LIFTOR components, specified by specific vehicle class and/or make, model and truck attachments, as well as by workplace environment are:

1.   Learning Objectives
2.   Instructional Plans
3.   Certification Test/Skills Check (on-truck)
4.   Daily/Shift Exam Record & Job-Aid
5.   Recommendations for environmental
      changes
6.   Recommendations for policy
      changes

 Other key components include:

7.   Operator certification ID card and
      certificate
8.   Certified Instructor & Test Examiner Kit
9.   Registry management Reports for continuous improvement.

Soon, most of the components will be developed using a combination of the on-line software of National LIFTOR (www.LIFTOR.com) and the normal personal guidance from National LIFTOR headquarters.
You can get a view of what's involved in a National LIFTOR installation by clicking, here.

For more information, call Joe Monaco at 732-563-4430