What’s Your Safety Goal: Pedestrian Detection or OSHA Compliance

Pedestrian detection and OSHA compliance are goals that every manufacturing, distribution center and warehouse wants to achieve and maintain. Every safety manager has a goal that they want to accomplish first. What’s yours? Is it pedestrian detection or OSHA compliance?  There usually is a reason for choosing one over the other. A near miss, an accident or a surprise visit from an OSHA inspector. Today, let’s focus on pedestrian detection for your forklift or other mobile equipment. Our next article will focus on OSHA compliance.

What is Pedestrian Detection?

Pedestrian detection by SIERA.AI uses AI machine learning technology to identify pedestrians in a set, defined path. When a pedestrian is identified, it provides an audio and visual warning to the forklift driver that a person and forklift are reaching a dangerous path. The audio warning is an adjustable sound, and the visual warning lets you know by flashing a symbol of a human being.

Why it’s important to identify a person is due to the pedestrian detection technology. This AI machine learning technology is also identifying objects. If there is an object within the path, it will show a symbol of a box to go along with the warning sound. Why is this important? Not only do you want to stop an accident that can injure or kill a person, it will also avoid costly damage done to the facility itself, or customer product.

Achieving Your Safety Goal

There are a couple ways you can achieve your safety goal of pedestrian detection. Let’s take a closer look.

1. Identify and track impacts: Some safety professionals want to first understand what’s going on in the facility first. Is there a serious problem or not? Is it one or two drivers that make up most of the issues…or not? If you want to uncover this information before going to a pedestrian detection system, then use the impact detection solution.
2. Pedestrian detection: Some safety professionals just can’t wait. They’ve had a fatality or injury in the facility and need to fix the problem right away. Then using the pedestrian detection system will allow you to identify a person within the defined path.

Use Impact Detection to Uncover What’s Going On

There’s a story in every facility and using impact detection can give you those insights into what is going on. You can find out questions such as:

• Are near misses occurring in my facility? How many and is there a pattern with ‘who’ is driving the industrial vehicle? Is it one person or is it multiple? Is there a time of day or shift where they occur the most?
• Are you experiencing low impacts. The little dings that cause a bit of damage. Damage to the corner wall from turning too tight or to the shelves that can bend during a pick or put away.
• Have impacts such as medium or high started to mature and now you have some serious damage or injuries occurring.

By identifying near misses and low impacts early in its maturation cycle, you can avoid having damage or injuries within your facility.

Summary

So now again we ask: What is your safety goal? Now contact us at sales@siera.ai and let us know how we can help you achieve your goal of pedestrian detection. Ready for OSHA compliance, great. Get our next article…