More Forklift Trucks Means a Greater Chance of a High Impact. How to Avoid Accidents

High impact forklift safety is a topic that continues to plague warehouse and facility managers. And as the market for forklift trucks continues to grow, the likelihood of high impact forklift safety will follow. According to Research and Market Reports just released on August 19, 2022, they estimate that the value of the lift truck market in 2021 was $2.06 billion and will continue to grow to a whopping $4.65 billion by 2030. As the market continues to grow, what about high impact forklift safety? Furthermore, what about identifying medium impacts, or low impacts?

What are High Impact Forklift Safety?

High impacts are when two objects or an object and a person collide without hesitation or minimal hesitation. This always results in an accident with damages to the objects and severe injuries or death if a person or persons are involved. This is where high impact forklift safety is most critical.

However, every company has a slightly different definition for what they consider to be high impact. This is usually measured in G Force.

G Force and How Fast Is It?

G force is a vitally important measurement for high impact forklift safety. Based on the type of environment and the products that need to be moved, most safety managers will have a slightly different G force threshold for what is a high impact forklift safety.

Here’s what we know. We know that 1G equals 22 mph. If two pieces of equipment hit each other at 1G, what is the damage level. If it’s 6G, then is that a high enough impact to be considered ‘high’. Some facilities will say yes, and some facilities will say no, it needs to be a 7 or maybe an 8.

Whatever your decision, the beauty of the S2 Impact Detection and the S3 Pedestrian Detection System is that you can set the system to whatever best reflects your facility.

Tracking the High, Medium and Low Impacts

Now that you know impacts are occurring, let’s start measuring and tracking the impacts. As the S2 Digital Inspection with Impact Detection and the S3 Pedestrian Detection System begin their day, the system will track any impacts regardless of ‘where’ in the facility. Even those quiet corners are tracked due to the AI machine learning that our forklift safety system uses.

As any type of impact occurs, the system will measure it based on the settings you’ve entered. If it’s at an alarming rate of G force, then the system will notify you. If it’s not, then all you need to do is watch the Dashboard as the system will report impacts in real time.

How Can Forklift Safety Systems Help

Forklift safety systems such as SIERA.AI, will give you the information necessary to decide if a forklift driver needs specific training, or if a part of the facility needs safety improvements or maybe improvements to pedestrian walkways need to be redirected.

All of this information can be found on the graphics-based Dashboard. Here you can view the information in an easy to read format that allows you to quickly make decisions for immediate improvement.

What’s Next?

Speak with a SIERA.AI safety consultant to discuss which system would be best for your facility: the S2 or S3 forklift safety system. From here, we’ll guide you through the process so you can start realizing the benefits of a SIERA.AI forklift impact detection system. Contact us at sales@siera.ai today.