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PITOT's progress, OSHA style. (Compliance).(Powered Industrial Truck Operator Training,...

The Powered Industrial Truck Operator Training (PITOT) standard, 29 CFR 190.178, was promulgated in 1999 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and is just now starting to show results.

That's about right for the OSHA standards-writing process: The standard has been promulgated, a compliance directive has been issued, and now we're in the never-ending process of getting companies to comply.

There's a good news/bad news aspect to PITOT. The good news is that some big companies have had lift truck operator training programs long before PI

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