Using Technology for Compliance Management

Compliance management. One of the best advancements in forklift safety is due to the development in technology. What had encouraged the betterment of the facility is the desire to track and monitor the mobile vehicles in the facility. Not only can monitoring be done on forklifts, but on any mobile vehicle in the facility. Let’s talk for a moment on how technology helps compliance management take a leadership role in the manufacturing, distribution center and warehouse facilities.

What is Compliance Management?

Compliance management is the ability to stay within the safety boundaries set forth by regulations. In our industry, OSHA is the governing body that guides our industry as to what is safe practices and what is not safe practices. It is up to management to ensure that the regulations are met or get fined by OSHA. In order to meet compliance management, processes must be put in place for forklift safety.

Compliance Meet Technology

We all know the challenges compliance management has been with the use of paper based forklift inspections or any mobile inspections. Now, with the use of technology, it ties the front end to the back end. Meaning, what is captured on the mobile vehicles in the facility is automatically transferred to the telemetry Dashboard. The tracking mechanism allows the data to the captured and inputted into a report with just a couple clicks. So if/when an OSHA auditor comes to your facility, you can give the auditor a report with just two simple clicks.

What is Tracked?

If the solution you’re looking at has a telemetry Dashboard tied with your forklift safety system, like SIERA.AI, then you are in luck. Let’s take a look at some of the information you can track to meet OSHA compliance.

Inspection Dashboard

Inside of the inspection dashboard are three categories that you’ll care about. Set the date to whatever you need and you will find out the following:

• How many inspections were completed
• How many passed
• How many failed

Drill down the ‘failed’ inspections by clicking on ‘failed’ to find out the reasons why the forklift inspection failed. But you will already have known as when a forklift inspection fails, you get a notification immediately when it happens. Why? You want to take care of it so the amount of downtime is at a minimum.

Incident Dashboard

The part of the S2 solution is tracking incidents. There is valuable information in incidents where you can get a better understanding of what, where and maybe figure out the why. In this part of the Dashboard, you’ll find out the following:

• Total Incidents
• Near Misses (these are your almost accidents)
• Low Impact
• Medium Impact
• High Impact

Because every company is different, you set the G-force for impacts so you don’t get notifications for impacts that are not as critical.

What’s Next to Do:

Next is up to you. Contact us today at sales@siera.ai to begin your compliance management solution.