What’s the Difference Between Forklift Risk and Forklift Risk with AI?
Safety professionals have an understanding of forklift risks. Risks that include harm to workers or pedestrians working side by side with these machines. We all know and have some experience when a person walks behind a forklift… just because they need to get past quickly and don’t want to wait. Regardless of how often we teach this lesson, it keeps occurring anyway. Let us not forget the risk of damage done to other equipment, machinery and to the facility itself. These are all high costs due to the lift truck. If safety professionals understand forklift risk, what about understanding forklift risk with AI? Does this reduce the risk or does the risk go elsewhere?
What is Understanding Forklift Risk with AI?
As technology continues to evolve it is important to know how understanding forklift risk with AI changes the approach to risk in a facility. How does AI mitigate this risk? Let’s take a closer look.
OSHA Compliance with Digital Forklift Checklist
One way to understand forklift risk with AI is the digital forklift checklist. This allows safety professionals to ask the standard questions in a forklift checklist, add to it, remove questions or create one that is unique to your environment. That information works to mitigate the risk of downtime from unnecessary breakdowns, unscheduled maintenance to name a few.
In addition, the forklift safety system can also manage the forklift operator’s credentials, only allowing those that are certified to go on a particular forklift. As we discussed in last weeks article, it will also keep unauthorized workers… including managers and supervisors from gaining access to the forklift.
Pedestrian Detection to Avoid Accidents
Another way to understand forklift risk with AI is with proximity detection or also known as pedestrian detection. This technology on a SIERA.AI forklift safety system scans every 60ms searching for objects or people within the path of the forklift. If it does, it will instantaneously alert the driver that something or someone is coming within the danger area. This is accomplished by the AI first identifying if it is a person or an object. It then sends a visual and audio warning to the forklift driver what is nearby: an object or a pedestrian. Now the forklift driver has the knowledge to take the appropriate action.
If the driver does not take the warning seriously and does not slow down the forklift, then the AI technology will override the forklift operator and automatically slow down the forklift to a slow stop.
Where’s the Proof?
The proof to understanding forklift risk with AI is in the telemetry Dashboard. This is where all of the data that the forklift safety system ‘see’s’ is collected and displayed in a way that the facility and safety professional can make accurate and quick business decisions to efficiency and effectiveness in the facility. The safety and facility professional can identify where hot spots are at knowing what actions need to be taken to reduce the growing and maturing risk of a potential accident so an accident never occurs. This is only one way, but there are many more where predicting where these issues can build are managed and overcome. Find out where more of these can help protect your facility by contacting SIERA.AI today.
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