Can a Forklift Safety Systems Protect High Density Storage in Facilities?
High density warehouse storage has had positives and negatives surrounding its use. As warehouse, manufacturing and distribution centers are always trying to find ways to increase profits, high density storage along with narrower aisles have worked to maximize square footage revenues. But it also comes with a price on safety. With this becoming a balancing act, can forklift safety systems protect high density storage? Let’s find out what it can do.
Does a Forklift Safety Systems Protect High Density Storage?
Before we get into how a forklift safety system protect high density storage, let’s first review what it is and the safety dangers it has.
As we know, high density storage becomes more popular when a company takes a look at the space within the four walls and reviews its processes and how they can get better. In addition, it may also be caused because of staffing issues which can be the difficulty of adding or wanting to subtract. But most often, companies are looking to decide how to increase profits when paying per square foot. The answer usually is go up and go narrow. When you go up, there is no cost to air. The revenues can increase as the cost per square foot stays the same. The cost per square foot goes down and the revenue gets a boost when the aisles are narrower.
What are the Risks with these Changes?
The risks with these types of changes are mostly safety. Some of the risks experienced by companies that have implemented high density storage are falling product, equipment hitting other equipment, and the amount of space the equipment has to work in along other workers. Of course there are risks for the worker including more injuries.
Can a Forklift Safety System Help?
Yes, forklift safety systems protect high density storage, but only a AI-based system can achieve your goal of safety.
Falling Product: As we all know, product falls be it from a low shelf or a high shelf. What we don’t know is when and where it will fall. The beauty of a forklift safety system is when a product falls, and it is within the pre-defined distance of the lift truck, it will identify the risk faster than a human and alert the driver as soon as it knows it occurred.
Equipment to Equipment: This type of impact or accident can occur between two lift trucks, a lift truck and a product line, and more. There are numerous reasons why this can occur, so how do we stop it from happening? Again, the forklift safety system is designed to constantly watch for equipment coming too close to the forklift. When it does, the forklift safety system will notify the forklift driver that something is too close within the pre-defined distance and notify the driver to take action.
Equipment to Worker: Workers all the time think they can pass behind a forklift and succeed passing through the other side. Really? We report on these types of accidents all the time. Which means, it’s not the best decision to make. The forklift safety system will identify the worker as they come close to the forklift (that pre-defined distance) which means the driver knows that someone can’t wait a minute before coming close to the forklift.
The moral of the story is forklift safety systems protect high density storage for those situations when you need it most. Get a demo to watch it for yourself.
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