Electric Forklifts have Less Moving Parts. Does that Mean Forklift Inspection Checklists Can Be Skipped?
Is there a need for electric forklift checklists? According to Statista, in 2021, there were 2,054,062 forklifts sold in the United States. More than 50% of the forklifts sold were electric forklifts. With these considerable investments being made into electric forklifts, are electric forklift checklists being widely used to keep these expensive machines working? What about the digital electric forklift checklists? Are electric forklift checklists being widely used? Or does the company need a better way to track electric forklift checklists in order to know and maintain a healthy and safe work environment? Let’s discuss further.
What are Electric Forklift Checklists?
Electric forklift checklists are an OSHA compliant list of questions in which the forklift driver answers specific questions based on operations and mechanics of the electric forklift. This list of questions can be paper based, or digital. To elicit the best answers possible, a digital electric forklift checklists can provide the best information possible to gain a long and profitable life.
Digital Vs. Paper-Based Forklift Inspection Checklists
Technologies have been moving fast. Some forklift safety systems use RFID technology, which certainly did wonders for the industry. When it first came out, there were antennas of RFID placed on the pallets so they can be read accurately with content, weight height etc, which kept the chance for theft down to a minimum. It also helped keep delivery and inventory accurate as well. However, applying the technology to moving vehicles like forklifts was good for its time, but was reliant on people wearing a vest or badge for the technology to identify if someone was present. It also relied on hardware being installed, mostly in high traffic areas, in order to identify if a person was around the vehicles. You probably can figure out on your own why this worked pretty good, but has many holes.
Sensors are good as well. Depending on how the sensors are applied to the situation, they can include no to little intelligence. Sensors are only detecting what you want them to detect. So the solutions can range from identifying one thing to having intelligence to include multiple identification tactics.
Electric Forklifts
Electric forklifts may have fewer parts, but their breakdowns can be just as common as propane and gas. By completing a digital forklift inspection you’ll be able maximize the lift of the electric lift check due to better answers, more timely maintenance and less on repairs. The guidance of the forklift safety system ensures it’ll get done. But also, let’s not forget the other benefits a forklift safety system provides such as impact detection and forklift access control.
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