Forklift Safety Systems are Needed for the Most in Demand Job
Over the past few week’s companies such as TMSC, Eli Lilly and Siemens have all announced billions of dollars of investment into the U.S. According to IndustryToday, these investments mean a “rapidly changing labor market.” The article discusses the most in demand jobs for the manufacturing and logistics industries. One of those jobs is for forklift operators that are certified in counter balance, reach, cherry picker or walkie lift trucks. With the increase in demand for these jobs, forklift safety systems are needed for the most in demand job.
How Can You Prepare?
Finding the talent today has already been a challenge for companies. With the turnover of forklift drivers, using temporary workers and new drivers to the industry, the risk of accidents, injuries and damages is fairly high. To ensure the protection of your revenue, manufacturing, logistics and warehouse managers need to be one step ahead with the purchase of an AI forklift safety system. Not any type of forklift safety system, but AI, which includes the intelligence that can identify a person and an object.
But what happens if the driver doesn’t stop because a person or object is within the defined zone for safety? Many coming into the industry will be new forklift drivers. The drivers will quickly learn that there are order to fill, product to put away, and it all must be done according to the schedule and schedule expected. This can cause the new driver to try to be faster and make mistakes as a result. But how costly will those mistakes be?
AI Forklift Safety System
AI is critical for what’s to come and forklift safety systems are needed for the most in demand job. AI is critical for implementing safety within the facility. AI has been learning for the past 10 years with SIERA AI on how to identify people and objects differently and separately. When setting up the system, you get to define what is the distance or safety zone you want to keep prior to notifying the driver that a person or object has entered the area. When that occurs, the forklift safety system will warn with driver with audio and visual alerts showing where the object or person is with a flashing symbol of what it is. There’s no guess work, just action.
However, not everyone takes action when they should, which can result in a forklift accident. What happens if you have a forklift driver or three, that just doesn’t want to follow the guidance of the forklift safety system?
AutoSlow to a Safe Stop
Facilities need to ensure they are protected. When forklift drivers refuse to take action with a forklift safety systems warnings, then action needs to be taken to ensure that safety happens. That’s where our AI forklift safety system comes into play… again. When a forklift driver doesn’t adhere to the warning and the person or object is in danger, the SIERA AI forklift safety system overrides the driver and automatically begins to slow down. It will continue to slow down to ensure the danger is adverted.
Clearly, forklift safety systems are needed for the most in demand job. The forklift driver. Contact us today to learn more.
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