Extensive experience with practical forklift and other mechanical material handling as well as accident prevention, safety, and accident investigation involving manual and mechanical materials handling.

My background and experience include a healthy dose of practical operating experience with material handling equipment of many types including many makes of forklifts with gear for handling steel, pallets, and slipsheets; mobile cranes; bridge cranes; hoists; conveyors; liftgates; and rail and highway rolling stock. I have operating experience with earthmoving equipment. I own a Cat D-6 dozer and have owned Ford, Kubota, and Case tractors. I have hazard knowledge of articulated equipment in the agricultural realm as well. I have operated forklift equipment from Hyster, Cat, Towmotor, Yale, Clark, and more.

During my warehouse and industrial employment, I worked with hand trucks, pallet jacks, flats, and carts of many types to handle variously configured loads including roll goods, drums, crates, and loose cartons.

Practical work experience includes handling fluids and loading and unloading tank trucks and rail tankers.

My working experience in insurance and my independent accident prevention practice adds to my qualifications on materials handling safety. I am familiar with,  CAL/OSHA, OSHA, other codes and standards which apply to materials handling safety and operations and jobsite accident problems, as well as the ASME, SAE, and other codes and standards which apply to the safe construction, care, use, and maintenance of materials handling equipment. I teach them in my classes.