How Forklift Inspection Training Keeps Your Lift Trucks OSHA Compliant and Producing at Its Max
Ensuring that the forklift inspection gets completed fully and completely at each shift may require forklift inspection training. That’s because if you want particular information captured to ensure the full life of the lift truck, then forklift inspection training may be the best way to capture that information. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get that information if it’s on paper. You have a much better chance if it is done electronically with a forklift safety system. Let’s discuss how a forklift safety system can help enforce the forklift inspection training process.
What is Forklift Inspection Training?
Forklift Inspection Training is the procedure of educating a forklift driver on the OSHA compliance process for forklift safety prior to the start of the shift when operating a lift truck. The forklift inspection training also includes the ‘how-to’s’. How to check the forklift for each of the questions ensuring an accurate evaluation and completion of the question / answer process. The forklift inspection training can be for those who are full-time employees to temporary forklift drivers. Ensuring that the forklift operators are fully trained and following the processes and procedures that you have put into place is essential for safety in your workplace.
Can Technology Help?
Technology can play a critical role in forklift inspection training by ensuring that the forklift inspection gets completed, and the data gets captured and tracked. But not all forklift inspection technology is the same. There are technologies in the market that digitizes the forklift inspection, but the data doesn’t get captured. All that occurs is that the forklift inspection gets done and it passed.
However, there are more sophisticated technologies that are in the market, like the SIERA.AI S2 Forklift Inspection Checklist, where the forklift questions and answers are captured and stored in real-time digitally in the cloud.
The Digital Process
How can you capture the information? When the forklift driver either scan his QR code or enters a PIN number, the system will automatically check to ensure the forklift driver is authorized to operate that particular lift truck. It will also ensure that the driver’s credentials are current and valid. If this is true, then the forklift operator can begin the forklift inspection…digitally.
After signing in, the first question comes up onto the screen. Based on the forklift inspection training received, the forklift operator should follow the education received, ensuring the proper way to inspect the forklift for OSHA compliance and for your own company’s tracking. Each question must be answered fully and truthfully. If the forklift operator tries to rush the process, and answers a question inaccurately, the inspection will fail. In addition, if the forklift operator answers it truthfully and knows there is an issue with the forklift, then the operator will be fully aware of the inspection failure.
To ensure the best results possible, SIERA.AI gives managers the option of randomizing the questions so the operator doesn’t grow accustom to the order of the questions. It keeps the operator aware of the next question and aware that they must read in order to answer accurately. Not all sections need to be randomized, you, the manager, can choose which section of the inspection to randomize.
The Digital Result
The results of the forklift inspection goes directly into the cloud in real-time. That way if there is ever a failure, you will be notified immediately and you can check either online, in-person or both as to what the issue is and know what needs to be done to fix it.
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