Get 3 Effective Forklift Safety Improvements with Technology

As a safety professional, forklift safety improvements is at the top of your list. Regardless of how many blue lights, horns or alarms that sound, the number of forklift accidents, injuries and damage just doesn’t seem to go down in numbers. As the adoption of technology is increasing in the industrial industry, forklift safety improvements are on the rise. How do we know? Because the telemetry Dashboard is monitoring, recording and reporting on what is really going on. Let’s investigate this further.

What are Forklift Safety Improvements?

Forklift safety improvements are ways of making the operation of a forklift and the result of its use to be easier, more efficient and productive. Prior to the advent of technology, forklift safety improvements were areas such as signage, manual forklift inspections, and following the manufacturer’s guidelines for operation. These are all still great to follow, but as we all know the number of forklift accidents and damages caused by forklifts continue to plague the industry.

As technology gets more mature, such as the use of AI artificial intelligence along with machine learning, forklift safety improvements has started to take on new meaning.

Forklift Access Control

A great way to improve forklift safety is with the use of forklift access control. This can be a part of your forklift safety system solution. Forklift access control ensures that those who are not allowed on the forklift…stays off.

In speaking to safety professionals, many say that either they or others have hopped on a forklift to get some work done. Maybe an order needs to get out, or product needs to be put away. Regardless, they have shared that this action goes on frequently. How can it be controlled?

Forklift access control with the use of technology allows the following:

• Only those with certification, and current with the certification, can login to the forklift safety system. Otherwise, the forklift will not start.
• Only those that are certified on that particular class of forklift can enter or start the forklift. Otherwise, it will not start.
• Once the forklift operator is authorized to go to the next step, a digital inspection checklist will appear. Again, with the use of technology, the forklift operator answers the questions. If the forklift fails the inspection, the forklift will not begin its shift.

Wear Your Seat Belt

There hasn’t been a way to ensure the forklift operator is wearing the seat belt. Many don’t want to use it as they may get on and off the forklift frequently. However, we all know that an accident takes just a second and if the forklift operator isn’t wearing a seat belt, the operator may thing that jumping off the forklift is a good idea. Of course, we know it is not, but instincts will kick in and operators may try.

Technology helps to manage the situation by ensuring the driver wears the seat belt. If the driver chooses not to, the forklift will not start.

Pedestrian Detection

Pedestrian detection is one of the best forklift safety improvements on the market today. By using the latest technology AI with machine learning, SIERA.AI has been able to detect when there is a person or an object in its path. The forklift operator will get a visual (a symbol of a person or a box which represents an object) and an audio alert, both occurring at the same time. This allows the operator to take action.

The benefit of a pedestrian detection forklift safety system is its ability to watch the environment while the forklift operators do their job.

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