3 Benefits to Turning Around a Reactive Forklift
Reactive forklifts are common in facilities today as accidents, damage to the facility and customer product continue to occur. Many times, when a safety manager notices a pattern of damage or verbal complaints about a certain area within the facility and takes action as a result, that is reactive forklift. The reason why it’s reactive, is that the attempt to stop the behavior or action from happening only transpires once the action has occurred.
Reactive Forklift Facts
The situation which can cost companies the most is when a person is injured. These costs can span over the course of a few months to a few years. According to the NSC, there were 7,290 nonfatal injuries involving days away in 2020. Days away from work costs a company in productivity, downtime, and other costs such as temporary workers, and product loss.
These types of events can be reduced by switching from reactive forklift situations to proactive forklift measures. This can be changed with the use of telematics.
Benefits of Proactive Forklift with Telematics
Telematics is the collection of data which is stored in a system that can be analyzed in order to answer an outstanding question or bring to light a situation that wasn’t necessarily known. One of the biggest benefits for a safety manager is that telematics takes the guesswork out of a situation. No longer does the safety manager say, “I think” or “I believe” a certain situation is happening, they can now say, “I know” or “Data has proven” that this occurrence is happening in our facility. This is being more proactive with forklift safety.
Let’s take a look at what proactive forklift safety can result it with 3 key benefits.
Benefit #1: Improve Forklift Safety
Changing from reactive forklift to proactive forklift safety will result in a few areas for change. Let’s start with the forklift driver. In telematics, you’ll be able to identify the driver’s behaviors and provide targeted training. If you also implement a forklift safety solution such as the S3 Pedestrian Detection System, you’ll also be able to identify patterns of ‘where’ incidents are occurring so you can take corrective action.
In addition, the forklift safety system will also prevent the accident with pedestrian detection sensors that communicate the information so a warning alert can be provided to the forklift driver giving him accurate information so he can take corrective action which results in lowering the potential for an incident to transpire.
Benefit #2: Lower Costs:
By removing reactive forklift from the situation, you’ll find it to be less expensive to stay in front of the issues. Wouldn’t it be great to remove costs associated with a forklift collision, repairs and any damage incurred during the accident? By utilizing a forklift safety solution such as the S3 PDS which automatically includes the telemetry Dashboard, you can save on hard costs and soft costs.
Benefit #3: Improved Efficiency:
Better data, better information will result in better efficiency. You have the data in the telemetry Dashboard. However, remember to carefully evaluate the telemetry system. Some systems are hard to get reports, and some have difficulty finding where to get the best data. As a result, make sure its getting you what you need quickly and efficiently as well.
Take a look at the SIERA.AI telemetry Dashboard. It gives you vital information right where you need it so you can make quick, great decision.
Better yet, let us show you. We can start with the telemetry Dashboard so you know exactly what we’re collecting. Then we’ll show you how the S3 forklift safety system does it. Contact us at sales@siera.ai.
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