Are You Thinking About Tracking Forklift Inspections?

Tracking forklift inspections has become top of mind especially with the discussions on vaccination mandates. In order for the mandate to work effectively, it all needs to be digitized. The worker needs to log into the system, answer some questions and submit their health status. With forklift inspections, you log into the system, answer a few questions pertaining to the forklift and submit the answers. When you think about it, what is the difference between tracking worker vaccination health statuses and tracking forklift inspections? You guessed it. Nothing.

Paper-Based Data Collection

As you consider the best ways of maintaining OSHA compliance, let’s first address paper-based inspections. Paper-based forklift inspections are very cumbersome for the people needing the information. In order to understand any potential trends going on with the fleet or a particular forklift, the data from the paper-based forklift inspection needs to be taken off of the paper, entered into a spreadsheet and analyzed each week, day or month. Do you have someone that can take that information off the paper and manually enter it into a spreadsheet? I bet that’s a full-time job.

What are the Benefits of Tracking Forklift Inspections?

Tracking forklift inspections allows you to watch the performance of the equipment over time. The performance could be time between maintenance intervals, time between repairs, the type of repairs, how often it experienced an impact, its maturation, and when it needs to be replaced.

Being able to track forklift inspections allows you to maximize the investment you made in the industrial lift trucks, performance and its output.

Moving from Paper Forklift Inspections to Digital

It may seem like a daunting task to move systems, but the longer you wait, the more information that is lost. However, it is advised to evaluate and choose your digital forklift inspection solution carefully. Be sure to think about the following:

From the operator perspective, they may think:

• Is it easy to use?
• Does it come in multiple languages?
• Will it take up too much of my time and affect my production or quota?
• Do I have to do it? Any potential shortcut or way around it?

As a manager, you may think:

• Is this going to protect my investment in the equipment?
• Is this going to protect my workers? Other equipment or the facility itself?
• What kind of information can I collect?
• Is this going to help me make better decisions about my fleet or forklifts?

Tracking Forklift Inspections Digitally

These are all great questions, and questions many safety managers and plant managers have asked. The SIERA.AI S2 Digital Inspection with Impact Monitoring gets right to the point by answering these (and many more) questions right in the Dashboard. Let’s take a look.

In the Inspection Dashboard, find out how many forklift inspections were done, how many passed and how many failed. Of course, you’ll want to know why it failed, and you can. You’ll already know when a lift truck failed an inspection, because you (and/or others) will have received a notification. This helps to remind you how many of those you had in a day, week, month, year or of all time. What do you need to know?

If you’re curious about a safety score for a particular driver, dig in. You want to know if a particular operator had impacts this week, find out. It’s all there. Now, one of the best ways to understand what is going on is to see it for yourself.

It’s best to do it now while tracking forklift inspections is top of mind. Drop our sales team an email at sales@siera.ai. They are the ones who can get you what you need…fast. I promise they will be informative and beneficial to the evaluation process. Give it a try.