Digitizing a Forklift Accident Checklist Delivers the Benefits of Insights and Control

Forklift accident checklists are an essential part of the workday. When a forklift accident checklist is missed, the risk for serious injury prevails. According to NSC, there were approximately 7,300 injuries caused by lift trucks in 2021. That’s over 600 injuries per month. Were you a contributor to the reported number of injuries? Not only does a forklift accident checklist ensure proper working order of the lift truck, but it’s also an OSHA requirement.

What is a Forklift Accident Checklist?

A forklift accident checklist is a list of ‘to do’s’ to ensure critical items are checked for proper operation. Up until recently, forklift accident checklists were done using paper and a pen or pencil. Today, technology has taken the paper-based forklift accident checklist and digitized it for better monitoring, tracking and reporting.

Digital Forklift Checklist Monitoring

Now that forklift checklists are electronic, managers can monitor a variety of areas:

• Forklift access control: unless you are authorized to driver a forklift truck, the electronic checklist won’t let you start driving unless you scan the correct badge or put in the PIN number associated with the forklift driver
• Checklist Itself: It needs to be done and pass before the driver can go
• Accuracy in the Answers: All drivers figure out the order of the questions. Many can recite the checklist from memory. Today, the S2 Forklift Checklist offers randomized questions AND randomized answers. They won’t know which questions or answers are coming!
• Notification: If a forklift fails an inspection, you’ll know. The system will automatically generate a notification (based on your settings) to you and any others that need to know that a forklift just failed an inspection.
• Smile! If a non-forklift driver tries to driver the forklift, or the forklift driver gets into a small (or larger) accident…smile! We got it on camera so you can identify and verify who was at the helm.

Where Does the Data Go?

Now that you are collecting a ton of great information that is not stuck on paper, rather it’s collected in a telemetry Dashboard, you’re ready to review the results.

When the data is entered into the electronic checklist, the data goes directly into the highly secure cloud-based telemetry Dashboard. Only those with the proper authorization can access the telemetry Dashboard.

What Do You Get?

The System collects the data and arranges it in a way that is meaningful to you. You can monitor the answers to each question or get a notification if there’s a failure and then look further. The telemetry Dashboard can also do the following:

• Track all forklift failures
• Track near misses, meaning track any forklift truck that had an ‘almost’ accident
• Track low level impacts
• Track medium level impacts
• Track high level impacts

This is a highly effective way of keeping the forklift healthy and taking corrective action when needed.

The Answer

To uncover this great product, check out SIERA.AI’s S2 Digital Checklist with Impact Detection. It’s a great way to monitor your inspections as well as any impacts on your forklift. Now you can keep your fleet for forklift trucks with maximum uptime. Contact us today at sales@siera.ai.