Top 3 Best Safety Practice for Your Facilities Mobile Equipment

What are the best practices for mobile equipment safety? Every year, mobile equipment operators, pedestrians and workers get injured or killed by blind spots, equipment to equipment impacts, rollovers, crushed and many more incidents. In fact, 75% of struck by objects involve mobile equipment. Are facilities using best practices for mobile equipment safety? Let’s review.

What are Best Practices for Mobile Equipment Safety?

Best practices for mobile equipment safety means regularly using processes that have been proven effective in the industry and/or within your facility to ensure the safe use of mobile equipment alongside people, other equipment or the facility itself. By utilizing best practices for mobile equipment safety, you can control to the best of your ability’s injuries, fatalities and damage that cause severe losses for manufacturing, distribution and warehouse facilities.

Pre-Shift Inspections

Regardless of the type of mobile equipment used within the facility, pre-shift inspections should always be practiced. Facilities always face the risk of completing the pre-shift inspection too quickly or not filling out the inspection report at all. So how can this best practice for mobile equipment safety be rectified? Digitize it.

By using the latest technologies, such as SIERA.AI’s forklift safety system, the pre-shift mobile equipment inspection needs to be done prior to the equipment even starting. For instance, if a forklift operator tries to hop on the forklift and bypass the forklift inspection, the operator will not be able to start the lift truck. If the operator tries to go through it quickly, either the operator will answer it incorrectly and the forklift will receive a ‘failed’, the forklift will not start and management will be notified. The manager will have the option of choosing randomized options for the questions and/or the answers to ensure maximum attention and accuracy of the answers.

Pedestrians & Workers are at Risk

Pedestrians and workers will always be at risk with moving equipment. In some situations, companies can segregate people from the mobile equipment. But in most, the two must work side by side. With one set of eyes from the operator and another set of eyes from the pedestrian or worker, the risk of an accident is great. With a forklift safety system from SIERA.AI, you can have ‘eyes’ searching every 60ms for objects or pedestrians with visual and audio alerts. This will reduce the risk of accidents and damages within and outside of the facility.

Mobile Equipment Kept Safe and Secure

This is an important best practices for mobile equipment. When the mobile equipment is not in use, it must be secure so no one can start the mobile equipment. Numerous accidents occur each year with teenagers, very young children and those who want to joy ride on the mobile equipment. We’ve reported in our newsletter the tragic stories as a result. All mobile equipment needs to be protected with access control, meaning if you don’t have credentials, the mobile equipment won’t start. Only those that are authorized and have proper access will the mobile equipment start. Otherwise, it will be a no go situation, a vital safety measure for your facility.

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