Is Your Company A Forklift Pedestrian Safety Minded Company?
As the end of a year approaches, safety professionals and management alike find themselves agreeing on the importance of forklift pedestrian safety, Strategies are thought through, plans are drafted and budgets are researched and submitted for approval. All these great efforts are made and a new vision is crafted for forklift pedestrian safety. But many times, these safety initiatives that once were on top of the list become ‘guidelines’ or ‘suggestions’ after the start of the new year. How can a company ensure that forklift pedestrian safety actually happens? Let’s try a few ideas.
What is Forklift Pedestrian Safety?
As we begin to discuss these great ideas, let’s see if we are all on the same page when it comes to forklift pedestrian safety. Forklift pedestrian safety is a way to ensure people that work around forklifts are free from harm of an accident. Many times, forklift safety systems are a perfect way to keep workers safe as the technology acts as the extra set of eyes to ensure the forklift doesn’t hit an object or a worker. The SIERA.AI S3 Forklift Safety System with AI technology can do the trick.
It’s an Integral Part of the Company
In order to make forklift pedestrian safety work, it needs to be an integral part of the organization…from the top on down. When the C-Suite discuss safety and practice it themselves, it sets the stage for everyone else to follow. For instance, if the C-Suite takes an interest in looking at the forklift inspection checklist, thoughts of filling it out can happen. But what manager wants to look at a bunch of notebooks. Instead by implementing a forklift safety system C Suite can view the telemetry Dashboard and get all of the answers in seconds. What a great way to make decisions.
Training Extended
What does training extended mean? This means that you train the forklift operators on safety procedures for the forklift, but also those that work around the forklift. If both have a clear understanding of the safety standards and refrain from taking chances and getting hurt, then the training that has been extended can be successful. However, in a forklift accident, it only takes one. One person who breaks with the rules, even a temporary worker, and try to run quickly behind the forklift and get pinned. That’s why that extra precaution of forklift pedestrian safety with the S3 forklift safety system comes into play.
Take Accountability for Actions
After training for the forklift driver and the workers in the facility share the training, next everyone can be accountable for their own actions. If you choose to run behind the forklift, then you know what can happen. Are you taking accountability for your actions? If the forklift goes too fast at the end of the aisle, is the operator willing to take accountability for someone getting hit? What if it’s a friend? Ensuring that the finger gets pointed in the right direction is key to a safe work environment.
Be sure to review the S3 forklift safety system and adopt the safety methods that can keep the entire operation safe.
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