Guide to Your Forklift Digital Checklist

Forklift safety is no simple task. From forklift operator training to fulfilling customer orders, there are many points of failure that can lead to a forklift experiencing downtime or a forklift accident. With the increase awareness and interest in IoT and digital solutions that provide valuable insights, EHS and facility manager now have the ability to reduce facility damage, identify areas of the facility that need safety evaluation and keep pedestrians and forklifts at a safe distance from each other. We’ve put together a Guide to Digital Checklist and we hope it helps you achieve your goal of mobility safety.

What is a Guide to Digital Checklist?

A guide to digital checklist is a way to confirm whether a process was completed. This process determines if it is fit for function or if it is unsafe to work in its current state. What makes a digital checklist unique is its ability to digitally track the answers to the questions so action can be taken in order to ensure the situation either doesn’t happen again or occurs infrequently. Let’s take a further look at the guide to digital checklist.

Digital Forklift Safety

Keeping drivers, pedestrians and the facility safe from harm or damage is a reasonable expectation when a driver gets behind the controls of a lift truck.

• Driver Accountability: The current booklet or clipboard are challenging to manage. Using a digital checklist will help improve defined results.
• OSHA Compliance: Ensuring OSHA compliance and getting the report to give to the OSHA auditor fast and easily will give the auditor confidence in your solution and management of forklift safety.
• Manual to Digital Checklist: Increase the accuracy of the answers, streamline costs and assign accountability is what a digital forklift checklist can do.

The guide to digital checklist will help enable proactive forklift safety and reduce or it may even eliminate forklift accidents. Paper checklists may require a second look and lots of calculating time to determine where the problem occurred.

Online Telemetry Dashboard

The next step in the guide to digital checklist is to go to the online telemetry dashboard where all of the data has been collected. Centralized management of the data enables optimization of poor performing forklifts ensuring downtime is minimized or even eliminated. The data also allows management to identify where potential issues may exist in the facility.

• Identify how many near misses are occurring at any given point in time. Uncover where the near misses are occurring. When the numbers are high, take a look at that location to understand why near misses occur. Make your changes as necessary to monitor the reduction of near misses. Near Misses should be deemed as ‘almost an accident’. It’s always best to evaluate those situations so accidents don’t grow and mature into something more.
• Measure the amount of low, medium and high impacts. By determining where the accidents are occurring, again, make adjustments so it doesn’t lead to something more. Of course, if you have a high impact, that will automatically cost you in repairs, possibly injuries, deaths, damage to product and the facility.

Finally…

Even though this is a shorter Guide to Digital Checklist, it is the starting point to collect valuable data for your facility. Remember, the Guide to Digital Checklist is not just for forklifts, you can put the S2 Digital Checklist with Impact Detection on any mobile industrial vehicle in your facility including golf carts, sweepers and pallet jacks!

Now that you are ready, contact us at sales@siera.ai to begin getting accurate data and online data collection.