Ride on and Pedestrian Pallet Jack operation 1.2 POWERED INDUSTRIAL LIFT TRUCK VEHICLE
DEFINED
A powered industrial lift truck is a vehicle drawn or propelled by mechanical,
electrical or manual power, designed incorporating a powered lift principally
to lift, carry or stack goods by means of:
(a) A fork consisting of one or more arms which support the load; or
(b) A platform; or
(c) Any attachment or other mechanism.
Without limiting the above definition this includes forklifts, order pickers, side
loaders, reach trucks, pallet trucks, platform trucks, straddle trucks and lateral
stacking trucks. While this definition does not include straddle carriers, much
of this code of practice is applicable to that equipment.
The old COP for TRAINING OPERATORS AND INSTRUCTORS OF POWERED
INDUSTRIAL LIFT TRUCKS (FORKLIFTS) includes this definition which appears to pull in "pallet lifters" Micheal, the UK HSE issued a clarification that pallet lifters that couldn't lift a load above 300mm were exempt from their LOLER examinations (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 -LOLER)