Forklift AI Technology in Workplace Safety
Workplace safety can be defined as the process of protecting employees from work related injury and even illnesses. It states that workplace safety begins with an Environmental, Safety and Health Policy and implementation of the ES & H safety plan and programs. This can cover anything from falls, ladders, forklifts and the ever growing workplace violence and drugs. Both of these new growing issues run across all areas of the workplace including the forklifts, which significantly affect safety. Is there a way out? Can forklift AI technology in workplace safety make a difference? We believe it can.
Forklift Injuries and Fatalities
As we all know, forklift injuries and fatalities continue to plague the industry. Safety professionals have tried everything from blue lights to guard rails. Nothing seems to get it to work. Why? It’s because it’s reactive safety instead of proactive safety. Here’s what proactive safety can do.
New forklift AI technology in workplace safety is giving safety professionals the technology and information they need in order to stay ahead of risks and other incidents. These advanced technologies give facilities the control they need with plenty of insights into impacts, unauthorized access, near misses, pedestrian detections and object detections all tracked through a graphics based, online telemetry Dashboard.
AI Technology Protects the Forklift, Workers and Operators
AI technology in the forklift safety system has already learned all about humans and objects. It knows what it looks like standing tall, bending down, crawling on all fours and more. It also knows pieces of a human, meaning a finger, a part of a shoe, a hardhat, an elbow. Whatever is a part of a human or clothes or protection placed over the person, the AI technology knows that is a human and will notify the forklift driver that a human is within the pre-defined distance of the forklift. At the same time, it also knows objects and as we know, it can be anything. So if an object comes within the pre-defined distance of the forklift, the forklift safety system will notify the operator that an object is within its path. This is all proactive safety as it can avoid an accident from occurring.
Telemetry Dashboard and Analytics
Another great reason to get AI technology is the ability to collect data. This is data that you’ve never had before with insights that can get you answers to your safety questions. One big question to ask is where are my high risk areas within the facility? If you know where the risk is high, you can make changes, install proactive safety measures and then watch the numbers change. Remember in a previous paragraph we talked about near misses, impacts, detections and more? You’ll have real-time data and historical data to analyze so you know more information on a forklift, tugger or any mobile piece of equipment in your facility. It collects the data, puts it in these buckets and you can track what’s going on in one or more facilities.
Now you’re ready to try it for yourself. Contact us today to learn more about forklift AI technology in workplace safety. You’ll be amazed at what you find.
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