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A regulation change by OSHA in 2003 all but banned lift platforms.  Are you still using them?  Many are.  Do you have the required written approval?  Can you even get it?  Download our illustrated safety alert for the latest details on how to handle this issue.

Lift platforms, sometimes called safety platforms, are essentially work platforms attached to a forklift and used to raise personnel.  Think of them as a poor man’s aerial lift.  Such platforms are in common use and range in our experience from commercially produced and well designed to homemade models that would not even pass for a good deer stand.  Since May 1971 OSHA permitted elevation of personnel by a “safety platform firmly secured to the lifting carriage and/or forks” of the powered truck as long as there was adequate protection from falling objects and a means for personnel on the platform to shut off power to the truck.