Do Forklift Safety Solutions Change Due to Forklift Types?
There is a wide selection of forklift types in the market today. Depending on your environment, you may have one or a combination of reach trucks, counterbalance forklifts, side loader forklifts and/or pedestrian operated pallet trucks. While it is essential for your forklift operators to receive forklift training in order to ensure efficiency and safety, we often get asked, does SIERA.AI’s forklift safety solutions change based on forklift types?Digital Forklift Inspection Checklist
Any paper-based forklift inspection checklist is never going to change. The checklist will ask the same questions, in the same order all in the same booklet or binder. Have you thought about changing some questions based on the forklift type?
This is one of those situations where you do want some questions to change based on forklift type. Because the S2 Digital Inspection with Impact Monitoring for Lift Truck Fleets is electronic, you have total control over the questions you want to ask…and if you want to ask them in the same order every time or randomized.
The web-based Dashboard allows you have as many checklists as you want. If you want 30 different checklists based on forklift type…do it. If you want to tailor questions based on manufacturer, age of forklift or warranty status…sure, you can. Questions at any time can be added, changed and deleted.
Forklift Impact Monitoring
Forklift impact monitoring is also part of the S2 safety solution. This is one area that stays the same and you wan it to. Impact monitoring on any forklift type is crucial. This gives you insights as to what’s going on in the facility.
- Where are the impacts occurring? Is there a pattern?
- Is there damage? Is the damage to the facility, other equipment or your customer’s products? Is there a pattern?
- Are impacts occurring during a particular shift? Is it a single forklift operator? Or all?
- Is it a particular forklift type? Or are the same occurrences happening regardless of forklift type?
The benefit of forklift impact monitoring is to have the flexibility to set the impact level. You can choose to be notified for every forklift impact, or you can set the level to be 2.5, 3.0 anything you want. Then be notified if an impact reaches over the threshold you set.
Again, all of the information is captured in the web-based Dashboard (same location as the forklift checklists). Here you can monitor and analyze the data so you can make actionable decisions, which keeps your facility safe.
Pedestrian Detection on Any Lift Truck
Let’s discuss SIERA.AI’s other safety system, the S3. This is a single solution that works on any type of forklift. You want the consistency in this solution as tracking any type of potential pedestrian encounters is critical to the safety of your facility.
The flexibility is certainly with the pedestrian detection as it will find a person partially hidden behind a box, piece of equipment or a racking system to name a few. All you want to know is if you reached your goal number of zero. Same thing…you want to ensure another good day, go to the web-based Dashboard and track your success.
There’s Always More…
As always with a SIERA.AI safety system there’s always more that we didn’t cover in our article. What you can count on that’s across forklift types is that we prevent forklift accidents and deliver valuable insights on every forklift in your facility in order to keep your employees, workers, operators, product, racking system and facility away from accidents and away from harm.
To go deeper into the SIERA.AI S2 and/or S3 forklift fleet safety solutions, contact us today. We’re always here to help.
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