Can AI Technology Reduce Forklift Incidents?
The latest charts by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics going from 2002 to 2022 for the U.S. workplace injury rates, clearly shows that fatal injury rates have continued to climb over the years. However, it does show that the total recordable injury rates have continued to decline or has remained steady from the year 2020 through 2022. It also reports in the latest statistic that the top industry for the DJTR for 2024 is for general warehouse and storage has the greatest number of cases. Can AI technology reduce forklift incidents?
Companies continue to grapple with how to be profitable with a high degree of productivity with these reported results? How can EHS professionals reduce the risk of injuries and fatalities for those needing to work on and beside forklifts on a daily basis? One way to gain that control to reduce risk is with a Forklift Safety System by SIERA.AI.
What is a Forklift Safety System?
A forklift safety system utilizes technology in order to help digitize the pre-shift forklift inspection, implement forklift access control as well as prevent collisions with people as well as objects. By making a forklift safety system part of your safety plan, it can reduce the risk of fatalities as well as injuries to both the pedestrian as well as the operator. However, not all forklift safety systems are created equal.
Can AI Technology Reduce Forklift Incidents?
The best type of forklift safety system is with an AI platform, such as SIERA.AI. The AI platform has over 10 years of experience in learning the difference between a person and an object. We utilize a special feature called ‘partial pedestrian detection’ within our AI platform that can identify as little as two fingers, a tip of a boot, or an elbow of a human being that can be hidden behind a pallet, boxes or other objects. This works to avoid unnecessary injuries in the workplace.
Reports in a Telemetry Dashboard
As or AI Forklift Safety System collects this information in real time and stores it into the telemetry dashboard, we are able to place this information in various forms of reporting. One report is the “hotspot report” where the special report shows where incidents including low medium and high impacts or pedestrian and object near misses are occurring within the facility.
Now EHS professionals can focus their time in these hot spots in order to reduce risk in the facility. The EHS professional can monitor in real time when the numbers go down because they have targeted the right areas that needed to be changed for safety. If the number of incidents go down, you know that you’ve hit the mark. If not, you need to go back to that spot and continue to make changes until you see the desired result. This encourages the reduction of risk so fewer people or pedestrians as well as forklift operators don’t get hurt.
By adopting forklift safety system technology especially with AI, you can control your expenses for both damages as well as to workers, pedestrians and the forklift operator.
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