Why I built Forklift-Certification.io

I've been forklift certified since 1998

I started driving forklifts at 18, working shipping and receiving for Vernon Plastics in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Since then I've run them at a lot of different jobs: electric and propane sit-down forklifts, battery-operated units that can move two pallets at once in refrigerated warehouses, and forklifts with bale-handling attachments. I've been the guy on the floor running these things, not just someone writing a course about them from a conference room.

I'm also a state fire instructor and a paralegal. The fire-instructor side is why this course is built around how people actually learn a hands-on skill, not just how to pass a quiz. The paralegal side is why every regulatory citation on this site gets checked against the actual primary-source text instead of copied from somebody else's summary of it.

Why forklift training, specifically

Two things stood out doing the research for this site. First, a lot of competitors in this space market themselves as "OSHA certified" or "OSHA approved," phrasing that implies a government stamp of approval that doesn't exist for this type of training. That's not a minor nitpick — a competitor in an adjacent training market was targeted by a state attorney general's office over exactly this kind of overclaiming. I'd rather say the plain, accurate thing: this course is built from the actual text of 29 CFR 1910.178(l), not that OSHA certified it.

Second, at the other end of the market there's at least one $9.99 "certification" site that is really a generic content mill — the same shell course reused across dozens of unrelated topics, with no forklift-specific content behind the forklift-shaped landing page. Price shouldn't require cutting that corner. I charge $20, one time, for an actual forklift-specific course, because overhead is low (no call center, no franchise fees, no referral network to pay out) and I'd rather pass that savings through than pad a margin.

Why there's no registry to point you to

Some federal training programs maintain a public registry of approved providers, so a student can look up exactly who trained them and when. OSHA's powered industrial truck standard, 29 CFR 1910.178(l), doesn't work that way. There is no federal registry of certified forklift trainers or training providers.

That difference matters, and I'm not going to paper over it with marketing language that implies otherwise. My discipline instead: build the course from the actual regulation text, price it honestly, and never claim a government endorsement that doesn't exist.

The legal entity

Forklift-Certification.io is operated by Kris Naz, LLC. "Forklift-Certification.io" is a DBA name for Kris Naz, LLC that is pending formal registration approval — I'm disclosing that status plainly rather than presenting it as an already-finalized registered DBA.

How the course content is actually built

Every fact and citation in the course traces back to a sources-of-truth research directory I keep for this project: the verbatim, directly-fetched text of 29 CFR 1910.178(l) and the related construction-industry standard 29 CFR 1926.602(d), confirmed OSHA interpretation letters, and research into how individual state OSHA-approved plans vary from the federal baseline. Course content is written from that verbatim text and cross-checked against it, not summarized or guessed at by paraphrasing someone else's course. If something in a lesson doesn't match the regulation, that's a bug I want to know about.