It’s an OSHA Visit. How Fast Can You Get them Out?

Have you compiled an OSHA visit checklist for that unexpected visit? According to OSHA, an inspector can arrive at your facility unannounced and come into your facility during operating hours. What do you think would happen if the OSHA inspector comes in and experiences for themselves the site of broken down lift trucks, puddle of oil on the floor, and empty pre-shift forklift inspection sheets. Yeah, fun day that’s going to be. We can’t solve the entire facility’s OSHA issues, but we can easily solve the lift truck issue with a two-click solution. Let’s discuss the OSHA visit checklist for forklifts.

What is an OSHA Visit Checklist?

OSHA online provides an OSHA visit checklist that clearly specifies their rights and responsibilities for entering a business unannounced. However, there’s always something that triggers an OSHA visit. Most times it is due to some sort of imminent danger or hazards that can cause severe injury or even death. This can include forklifts or any type of lift truck, which is the focus of the OSHA visit checklist.

Forklift Pre-Shift Inspection

As the safety professional, you can put together your own OSHA visit checklist that is specific to your lift trucks. You begin by implementing the S2 Inspection Checklist with Impact Detection by SIERA.AI. Here’s why. The forklift pre-shift inspection checklist is digitized. You say, ‘so what…there’s plenty of digital checklists out there.’ Except, they don’t have randomization.

One of the key purposes of a forklift pre-shift inspection is to get accurate answers to the questions asked. Or the information is not valid or useful. In the telemetry Dashboard, that automatically comes with the forklift safety system, you have the option of turning on ‘randomization’. This allows the questions in each section to be randomized. What does that do? It encourages the reading of the questions thus getting better, more accurate answers.

If the answers are quickly answered and the forklift inspection fails, the forklift won’t start. In addition, you and others of your choosing, will be notified of the failed forklift inspection. This is a great piece of information that you can place on your OSHA visit checklist letting the OSHA inspector know of the constraints that are in place for safety of the operator, pedestrians and the facility and products itself.

Telemetry Dashboard

If you have a visit from the OSHA inspector, and asks for a report of your forklift inspections, you won’t be giving the OSHA inspector binders full of paper. Nor will you give the inspector a bucket full of booklets either. Instead, you’ll go into the telemetry Dashboard, click on Inspection Reports, and click on PDF or CSV to download. Two clicks and you are in OSHA compliance.

Of course, there are other great features that you will be tracking with the S2 forklift safety system. This includes:

• High, medium and low impacts
• Failed / pass lift truck inspections
• Unauthorized access

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