Are You Getting 100% Accuracy on Your Forklift Inspection Checklist

Forklift compliance is not a choice, it’s the law. The law requires employers to provide employees with a safe working environment, and yes that includes operating a forklift. However, that’s where the stress begins. In order for a company to be forklift compliant, the forklift operator needs to be truthful about what the operator is answering each time the operator is on a forklift. Are they being truthful? Are they pencil whipping? Is your facility at risk of not being in forklift compliance? Let’s discuss how to reduce or minimize forklift compliance risk.

What is Forklift Compliance?

OSHA requirements for forklift compliance is all about implementing safety within the environment in which the forklift operator works. There are a few areas that needs to be enforced for forklift compliance. These include:

• Assess the equipment such as the forklift, golf cart, reach truck, pallet jack, any type of mobile equipment used within the facility
• Safety program needs to reflect the company’s facility
• Safety equipment needs to be ready when a worker needs it and it also must be in working order
• Daily equipment inspections

Operators must be trained, authorized, certified and demonstrate that they know how to operate the equipment properly

Challenge with Paper Forklift Inspections

Paper forklift inspections was the only choice available. It’s easy to manipulate, easy to lose and it doesn’t help in identifying patterns if a forklift is underperforming. Some safety professionals took digital to mean a pdf. Taking the paper forklift inspections, scanning them in and create a pdf file. That’s great if the OSHA inspector comes in and wants to see the reports, but are they useful? Eh.

Digital Forklift Inspections

By changing over to digital forklift inspections, the operator will quickly understand that their answers are being recorded. Certainly, we hope that snaps them into thinking twice about quickly answering the questions. However, SIERA.AI has another way to further obtain more accurate answers. Randomize.

By turning on the randomized function, you can randomize the questions, randomize the answers or both. This encourages the forklift operator to read each question and answer more accurately. If the operator tries to quickly answer, then the risk of a failed forklift inspection just went up. If there is a failed forklift inspection, the safety professional, plant manager and/or maintenance manager (up to you who all should be included) will get an electronic notification immediately.

Electronic Tracking

Where does all that data go that needs to be tracked? At SIERA.AI, it goes into our telemetry Dashboard. It is an easy to read, graphics-based Dashboard that tracks real-time data. In this case, you can track and analyze the patterns of failures, forklift, the operator and more. Maintenance will be happy to know the pattern of issues occurring so action can be taken to minimize the problems that may result in prolonged downtime.

Many telemetry systems can be quite detailed and cumbersome, where many companies don’t use it as they need a full-time person just to sift through the detailed information just to get the critical answers out. The SIERA.AI telemetry Dashboard is customer driven, meaning we give you the information that you want to know so you can make a decision quickly. You are always a couple clicks away, 1-2 seconds, from getting the information that is critical to your operation.

Contact us today at sales@siera.ai or call (512) 817 0702