Powered Industrial Truck Checklist – 3 Reasons To Go Digital
When a powered industrial truck, or forklift, is removed from the fleet of lift trucks, the dynamic of the operation changes. Downtime for material handling businesses means delayed production, reduction in revenue and profits. How can a company’s forklift fleet keep revenue flowing in…instead of flowing out?
What is a Powered Industrial Truck Checklist?
A Powered Industrial Truck Checklist or PIT Checklist is an inspection form with a series of questions that help an operator or user of an industrial truck check and validate the safe operation of the vehicle according to company, local or federal regulations. In certain countries, a powered industrial truck checklist or PIT checklist is mandatory and non-compliance may lead to regulatory fines.
3 Ways a Digital Powered Industrial Truck Checklist Keep a Company’s Revenue Flowing
1. Electronic PIT Checklists
Electronic PIT checklists are gaining in popularity as plant, operations and EHS managers rely on the consistency and completion of safety checklists every day. Instead of carrying around clipboards or flipbooks, the industrial truck safety checklist is right on the phone, tablet or even a mounted touchscreen. It’s easier to use, faster to access and just as quick to answer. The goal is for daily or pre-shift inspection checklists to get done.
Why? If the electronic checklist gets done daily or prior to every shift, problems with the truck can be found faster, issues identified sooner and downtime is reduced to a minimum. This all equates to a company’s revenue stream to continue to flow in as orders keep going out.
2. Electronic Notification for Failed Powered Industrial Truck Inspection
Once the operator completes the electronic checklist, the answers get rolled into an online dashboard for monitoring and tracking. However, during the inspection process, if the forklift or lift truck receives a ‘failed’ report, a notification is immediately sent. Who does it get sent to? That’s up to you. It can be a single person to a group of people such as plant manager, maintenance manager and operations manager.
As we’ve come to rely on, the maintenance manager is the key individual to receive the notification as they will help to schedule, repair and bring the lift truck back into production. The instant notification feature is one of the reasons Scout is chosen as the electronic inspection checklist over any of the free versions of packaged software that comes with a new forklift purchase.
3. Dashboard for Monitoring, Tracking & Improving Performance
Maintenance has a good idea if a lift truck is in poor health. If you ever ask for data to back it up, they would have to analyze binders or booklets to put together the story. This can take hours or days to prove their reason to purchase a new forklift or to buy costly parts.
Today, maintenance can use the online Dashboard that does the work for you by tracking the answers to the inspection questions. Now maintenance can quickly analyze, report and justify the purchase with configurable data.
Missed Inspections are a Top 5 OSHA Forklift Violation
How do you prevent missed OSHA inspections? Our free 5-Step Forklift Safety Strategy Guide shows you exactly how Fortune 500 companies like Owens Corning have used digital inspection tools to completely eliminate missed inspections and save time and reduce maintenance costs in the process.