This was actually just before the start of a 20y career of OSHA (and everything else) violations for the same company.

About a week after this I was running a rented electric jack-hammer and gas-powered saw to try and take down some short concrete walls. (We ended up eventually scoring a few inches into the bottom of the walls, then knocking them over with the aforemantioned forklift. Then used the jack-hammer to bust it all up once it was on the ground.)

I didnt get any sort of certification until 10y later. I was finally gonna join the official painters-guild, which required a safety certification. And then the company went bankrupt. And I had a shiny new $200 site-safety-certification to take to my new slum-lord job.

(And the cert was a scam! My manager told me I had to get it done, the other painters just happen to going to do their "test" that week. I went with em to sign up. The whole process is supposed to be 1:get manual 2:study manual 3:come back for oral exam. This was run a side-business by a professor at an engineering school, out of his office. So I show with 3 other painters. Them for their test, me just to sign up. I sit in on the test. I answered one question.

That was it. Ofiicial Safety Card showed up in the mail a week later. Never even held the manual.)