Is Your Management Part of the 87%?

Digital lift truck safety continues to gain momentum. According to Gartner, 91% of businesses are engaged in some form of digital initiative, and 87% of senior business leaders say digitalization is a priority.  Although these are encouraging statistics, many EHS professionals are still spending most of their time with paper-based forklift inspection checklists. These forms are either not filled out or completed quickly where the answers were not read, thought about or answered with accuracy. Digital lift truck safety is the only way forward to OSHA compliance and tracking safety…accurately.

What is Digital Lift Truck Safety?

Digital lift truck safety electronically administers, records, tracks and reports on the forklift inspection and on any type of forklift impacts. These two critical components of digital lift truck safety combined allows safety professionals to better understand the practice on the facility shop floor and plan and execute appropriate actions in order to ensure the safety of the workers, pedestrians, equipment, and the facility itself from harm and damage.

Still Fighting with Paper

Safety professionals continue their frustration as their quest for digital lift truck safety goes unheard. It is critical that management supports safety professionals as this will not only help the workers, but it also helps the company financially as well. That’s because the cost of an injury or fatality can set a company back significantly. According to the NEC the cost of a fatality is $1.3 million and the cost of an injury for just a single consultation was $42,000 in 2021. However, the total cost of injuries in 2021 were estimated at $167 billion. Clearly, there’s room for improvement.

Digital Lift Truck Safety is Here

It’s time to take those binders, put them in boxes and place them in storage. You maybe made use of those papers one time as you quickly took a look through them. Can you believe you will actually make use of the data on them even more? As the information is converted from paper to digital, you’ll make use of the information by analyzing the data in different ways. Through a telemetry Dashboard (supplied by SIERA.AI) you’ll be able to access the data and view it in ways that offer you insights into your facility. Here you’ll be able to:

• Know the exact question the forklift inspection failed
• Which asset is experiencing the most issues, and based on the answers, pinpoint the trouble areas of the lift truck

Know if the driver is taking too much time to complete the forklift inspection, and the system is ‘timing out’ due to inactivity. When this occurs, the forklift driver will need to complete the forklift inspection from the beginning. However, the system will continue to track the time-out as well as the completed inspection for the same forklift driver.

But, Let’s Not Forget Impact Detection

Part of the forklift safety solution, especially SIERA.AI, is the inclusion of impact detection. This allows for any small to major bumps and hits by the lift truck to be monitored, ‘read’, and reported. Meaning, the G-Force will be measured and categorized at low, medium and high. Now you’ll be able to analyze:

• Where all of the low impacts are occurring. Is there an issue with that area(s)?
• Who records the most impacts. Does that driver need tailored training?
• High impacts, and get immediate notifications when it occurs. This allows you to get to the site quickly to asses the situation before any changes or movements have occurred.

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