How to Stay Forklift Safe in Tough Economic Times

According to economists, when there are two quarters in a row of high inflation, then it is safe to say the economy is in a recession. When this happens, management will quickly pump the brakes on spending and scrutinize each expense. Do you need to spend money to stay forklift safe? Does the investment deliver an ROI? Is there a way to stay forklift safe?

How to Stay Forklift Safe

Stay forklift safe can be traditionally defined as reactive safety, meaning putting up posters, promoting toolbox safety meetings, promote safety days, and provide ongoing training to name a few. Then there’s the next level of safety with blue lights, seat belts, honking the horn as well as beeping sounds when going in reverse. These again are all about reactive forklift safety. But where’s the proactive forklift safety solutions?

Is Forklift Safety an Expense or an Investment?

Each of these words have a different perception to stay forklift safe. Let’s take forklift compliance. OSHA doesn’t mess around when it comes to forklift compliance. Is it an expense to keep the forklifts running at maximum performance or is that an investment in the longevity of its effectiveness. What about impact detection. Is identifying near misses and impacts an investment of how many, who, and why it is occurring? Or is it an expense in collecting the data to understand the operation? It’s all in the matter of how you present it to management.

Investment in Digital

Moving the paper process of forklift safety inspection from its current state to digital can warrant savings. Can the company afford a forklift breakdown? What is the cost of a single forklift that is out of circulation? Then add in the expenses for repair and you’ve already cost justified implementing a digital solution.

By digitizing the compliance process, you’ll collect more reliable data. How? We implement the random technique. Randomize the questions and answers will make the operator stop…read and answer. Accuracy will help to identify the health of the forklifts and keep it running to avoid downtime.

The Dreaded OSHA Visit

Sorry OSHA inspectors, but we want your visits to be short and brief. You’re coming to the facility to evaluate its safety. Let’s get forklifts off the list fast and easy. How? The S2 Digital Inspection has a telemetry Dashboard. It houses the data (answers to the forklift inspection questions) and keeps track of all of the ‘passes’ and ‘fails’. It will literally take the forklift manager, EHS or maintenance two clicks to run the report. That will probably be the shortest amount of time any OSHA inspector will need to make in the facility. What will that save the company?

Investing in Tough Economic Times

Investing in tough economic times means placing the investment in areas where large expenses can occur. OSHA compliance, forklift maintenance, forklift breakdowns and productivity losses are some of the areas where losses occur. The S2 Digital Inspection will solve that.

Have you taken a look at the forklift safety system technology? Take a look at the S2 Forklift Safety System today. Contact us today at sales@siera.ai.