• Tip over Stability • Crash Worthiness or Operator Compartment • Use and foreseeable misuse • Adequacy of operator manual and safety manual • Adequacy of warnings • Operator training • Forklift design defect

Forklift safety is subject to a variety of standards world wide. The most important standard is the ANSI B56—of which stewardship has now been passed from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation after multi-year negotiations. ITSDF is a non-profit organization whose only purpose […]