Top 3 Reasons How Data Capture and Analysis Can Reduces Lift Truck Accidents
A safety inspection check list can have many line items with things to check. However, when you take a look at many other company’s safety inspection check list, there are line items that are the same in each. But what makes a safety inspection check list work is not just what the standard questions list, but how the company can make it their own. When it comes to a forklift safety inspection check list what do you have on your list to keep the lift truck running in order to avoid accidents and downtime? Let’s discuss a few ideas.
If you want to ensure that tracking is being done, a forklift safety system will track all that we are to talk about now. Not only does the forklift safety system keep you in OSHA compliance with your safety inspection check list, but it also tracks impacts of high, medium and low, as well as other factors to help you stay on top of each asset’s health and the driver’s well-being.
Past Forklift Impacts
If you find that you have been getting frequent low impacts, this is an opportunity to dig into the forklift safety system’s telemetry Dashboard and find out ‘why’. First, consider looking at which asset is getting the impacts. Is it noticeable that it’s a particular asset or is it a wide variety. Next, is there a pattern of ‘who’. Is it the same forklift driver or is it different drivers? Now, take a look at location. If it’s a variety of drivers, on a variety of lift trucks, now it’s time to look at where it is occurring. Are the low impacts occurring at the same location each time? These may be considered your hot spots. Now that you know this information, you can devise a plan to make changes to the area and begin to test which change will solve the problem. You will have information to determine which change worked.
Stick to a Routine
Getting drivers and pedestrians use to a routine is critical for maintaining safety in the facility. Go over the safety inspection check list for each of your various lift trucks and gain their input to make it better as the likelihood of them using it will increase. The information captured will provide valuable insights into other improvements in processes for safety that maybe you haven’t considered. Or didn’t know that it was an issue and this has the opportunity to avoid a future accident. Track the answers and report back to the employees the findings in the telemetry Dashboard.
Organize the Checklist for a Reason
Organize the forklift checklist into sections. Yes, there are some of the standard sections such as ‘turn engine on’ or ‘keep engine off’, but you can organize other section that are critical for better, deeper insights. To ensure you get as accurate of an answer as possible, use the ‘random’ toggle in the telemetry Dashboard to randomize the questions. This ensures that eyes are on the questions. If not, then the likelihood of failing the forklift inspection is great. If the forklift inspection fails, a notification will go out to all those that need to know to alert of the failure.
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