Ensuring Facility Safety with Material Handling Vehicles

Facility safety are two big words that encompass the entirety of the four walls including all of the vehicles, people, machinery, and product that’s within. Facility safety is about putting the plans and procedures in place in order to create a safe working environment for those individuals who need to operate within the manufacturing, warehouse or distribution center. All of the various facilities present areas that are hazardous or dangerous. One of the most difficult areas to get under control within all facility types are with material handling vehicles, such as forklifts, reach trucks, pallet jacks and the like. Is it possible to create a facility safety plan that is proactive? Meaning, help identify areas of growing risk or concern so injuries and accidents can be avoided.

What is Facility Safety?

Before getting into the proactive side of safety, let’s first define what facility safety is. Facility safety is the overall phrase that describes the processes and procedures that are developed for the safety of the workers, pedestrians, products, equipment and the facility itself. If it seems like a lot, it is. Each piece of equipment, static or movable, has its own safety procedures. The products need to be protected from damage, or the product becomes worthless. And all of the moving vehicles have the risk of injuring, or damaging everything within the facility including the people.

The Safety Culture

Creating a culture of safety means getting everyone on the same page. It can also mean ongoing training to ensure that the adoption of the culture that you’re trying to create is practiced by all. This is especially important with material handling vehicle training, even more than the certification program forklift drivers need to go through. What is important is that performing these types of ongoing trainings and beliefs is critical for everyone to adopt. But as much as we’d like for this to happen, we also know that not everyone will adhere to the program 100%, and the risk for an accident can still occur. 

Lead with AI Technologies to Capture Critical Information

By using a forklift safety system within your facility safety program, you can collect critical data that will help you to be proactive especially with the one of the highest risk aspects of your facility. Material handling vehicles.

With a SIERA.AI forklift safety system, the information that you collect from the cameras scanning every 60ms identifies when there is a person or an object within its path. We’ll not go into the process of collection, just what happens after you collect it.

The information is automatically collected and send to a telemetry Dashboard. The Dashboard then presents the following information: (sampling)

• Near Misses – Pedestrian
• Near Misses – Object
• Low Impact
• Medium Impact
• High Impact

We’ll just cover these for now. When it comes to impacts and near misses, the data will help to identify how many and where these are occurring. This way, you can go to the area of concern and gain a better understanding of what can be there that’s causing the slamming on the brakes or a low impact. By making the necessary changes, you’ll be able to stop an accident from maturing to a high impact.

With photo capture and the scanning of the QR code or PIN number, you’ll know ‘who’ is on the lift truck. This will help to know if it’s one, two or all of the lift truck operators that is experiencing the problem. If just one, two or three, this can just mean these operators need tailored training in order to overcome the issue. If it’s a greater percentage, then the area needs to be further analyzed.

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