Are You Ready to Kick Paper Forklift Inspections to the Curb?

A digital forklift checklist can provide many benefits including maintaining OSHA compliance, increased accuracy of information collected and know who is driving which asset. Even thought these are the top reasons companies choose a digital forklift checklist, the question remains, are you ready to kick the paper forklift inspection? If you’re still contemplating the move, lets take a few moments to understand the benefits of your investment.

What is a Digital Forklift Checklist?

A digital forklift checklist is when a department transforms their paper-based forklift inspection from the paper-based process to a digital process. The questions on the paper-based checklist to digital does not change, the collection of the information changes for better, faster and more efficient analysis for forklift maintenance, forklift failures as well as OSHA compliance.

Benefit #1 Increase Accuracy

A digital forklift checklist can increase accuracy of the answers with the SIERA.AI benefit of randomizing the questions, randomizing the answers or both. If the forklift driver tries to answer the questions quickly, the likelihood of the driver answering questions incorrectly is high, which will result in notifications sent to those in the list.

With accurate answers, your maintenance team can better manage the forklifts to ensure maximum productivity and throughput without the forklift going down.

Benefit #2 OSHA Compliance

Being OSHA compliance is easily accomplished with a digital forklift checklist. With all of the questions asked digitally, and all of the answers answered digitally, the content is collected in the telemetry Dashboard situated in the cloud. If you have one, two or ten facilities where forklift digital data is being collected, all information is stored in the same Dashboard. If you need to run a report for the OSHA auditor, simply go to reports, pick the report you want to print and you’re done.

Benefit #3 Who Was That?

Keeping track of assets is a challenge. Knowing who’s on the asset especially running three shifts makes things a bit trickier. When the forklift driver starts the shift, the forklift driver needs to scan their badge or enter a PIN. This is one way of managing the control of the assets. Asset control can also ensure that the forklift driver wears a seat belt, and ensures only forklift certified individuals are driving the lift truck.

Benefit #4 Telemetry Dashboard

The SIERA.AI telemetry Dashboard keeps track of the data in a graphics-based manner. You’ll quickly see the amount of inspections completed for a designated period of time. Next, you’ll see the amount of inspection ‘passes’ and the amount of inspection failures. However, you’ll already know each of these failures as a notification is sent for any forklift failures in any of the worksites.

The telemetry Dashboard will also track the number of impacts, these include low, medium and high impacts. This is critical information as knowing the type of impacts can bring vital information for better, more accurate decision making and corrective action. What can you do with this information?

Be sure to learn more about our digital forklift checklist and how you can kick the paper to the curb. Contact us today at sales@siera.ai or call us at (512) 817 0702.