Digitizing Powered Industrial Vehicle Inspections on Current Equipment Can Extend their Useful Life

Powered industrial vehicle inspections (PIV) are mandatory for OSHA compliance. And that’s great, but sometimes being in compliance doesn’t reflect your unique facility operation. You need to add more. You’d like to know more, collect valuable information so your facility can operate more efficient. But the way powered industrial vehicle inspections are today, still on a clipboard, missed inspections or completed with speed in mind and not accuracy, there’s little to no value being collected. Can digitizing the powered industrial vehicle inspection expend the life of your current equipment? Let’s find out.

What is Powered Industrial Vehicle Inspection?

Powered Industrial Vehicle inspection or PIV inspection is the process of systematically checking the inner and outer workings of the vehicle to ensure efficient working order for maximum productivity. This allows the PIV for continuous operation without interruption or downtime which causes loss of productivity.

Digitizing the Inspection Process

The current method of forklift checklist inspections in many facilities today remain paper-based. Although many are either beginning or in process of transforming from paper to digital, there is still a difference from one digital forklift inspection to a more technology based forklift inspection.

Some digital inspections can come in free downloads or a low cost investment. But you get what you pay for. These digital checklists are sometimes mobile phone based or tablet friendly. But if you want to analyze the data being collected in order to make decisions on your PIVs, then technology is needed.

Get More Insight from your PIV Inspections

With a SIERA.AI S2 Inspection checklist, critical features are provided in order for safety professionals to have more decision making abilities than ever before. Here are a few areas for consideration:

• Randomization of Questions: Part of why pencil whipping works so well is that the operators know what’s coming in a particular order. But what if those questions are randomized? It encourages the operators to read the questions and answer it with consideration. If the operators try to quickly run through it, the risk increases. What happens if the powered industrial vehicle inspection fails?
• Notifications: Electronic notifications are a critical feature to a PIV inspection. If the forklift inspection fails, all those you wish to be notified will be. If it’s one email address or 101 email addresses, include all those that are essential.

What About Security?

Security if paramount for any powered industrial vehicle inspection. When a forklift operator is ready to begin their shift, the operator can either scan in their badge with the QR code or enter in a PIN number. Either way, the identifier is unique to the operator and ensures the operator and asset are properly paired together.

Part of security is asset control. If the powered industrial vehicle inspection checklist is not completed, or fails, the forklift will not start. This not only helps to control the inspection process, but it also controls those that are unauthorized to be driving a PIV. This in turn ensures injuries or fatalities are reaching your goal of zero accidents and injuries.

Impact Detection

SIERA.AI also includes impact detection that measure the G Force for low, medium and high impacts. The settings of what is best for your operation can be changed from the SIERA.AI default settings. Your facility operation is yours to determine.

Data Collection

We didn’t go much into impact detection, you can find out more here in one of our other articles. However, what is critical for your operation is getting to the data collected from the powered industrial vehicle inspection and impact detection. The telemetry Dashboard will enable you to quickly assess the data with our graphics based Dashboard. Here you can:

• Determine within any given period of time the number of failed inspections. With a couple of clicks you can also find out which question failed on a particular asset or over time. Now you can track the pattern and know if it’s a single issue for an asset or for a larger set.
• Low, Medium and High Impacts are important to know for damages to other equipment or the facility itself. Why is it occurring? Where is it occurring? Are there patterns forming where you can determine the issue? Also, is it a driver that is experiencing issues? Do you need to provide tailored training to help the operator get past their challenge? Great questions to keep handy as you begin to use our S2 safety solution.

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