Best Forklift Safety Systems
When looking for new safety systems, your team is likely looking for the best in forklift safety systems. But what features make one solution better than another? What features should your team look for to safeguard its warehouse? In this article, we’ll explore answers to these questions– answers that can mean the difference in forklift safety.
We’ll discuss various lift truck safety systems and how they can be implemented to improve forklift safety around the warehouse. We’ll also explore specific forklift truck safety systems so your company can see important features in action. But first, we’ll take a look at important features of forklift safety products, serving as a stepping stone to help your team find the best forklift safety systems for its warehouse needs.
Important Features of Forklift Safety Products
While different warehouses have different demands and requirements in safety measures, there are a couple of important features of forklift safety products that can benefit any warehouse. Although material handling may be inherently dangerous, the best forklift safety systems mitigate the risk of forklift-related accidents and injuries and improve productivity. Simplicity, specificity, and compatibility are important features of forklift safety products.
Simplicity
Even though complicated safety products may seem the better choice to improve safety in material handling, simple solutions are usually the way to go. User-friendliness, easy installation, and smooth integration are good predictors of success. We design ELOKON forklift safety products to be easy to use, install, and integrate so that your material handling team can be safer as soon as possible. Reliability and efficiency start with straightforward solutions.
Specificity
Powerful safety systems are specific– meaning that they solve certain pain points around the warehouse. Generalized forklift safety products like signage and marked pedestrian routes are passive and rely on driver action to prevent forklift-related collisions and injuries. While they do increase awareness throughout a warehouse, pedestrians and drivers can get sensitized to their information, increasing the risk of accidents. ELOKON solutions offer specific tools for certain areas of the warehouse, including indoor/outdoor transition areas, VNAs, and other designated zones. ELOKON’s approach to increasing safety is to actively prevent collisions in specific areas of the warehouse.
Compatibility
The last feature of the best forklift safety products that we’ll explore is truck compatibility. Of course, your team will want to implement forklift safety products that can protect your fleet, regardless of make and model, especially if your company has mixed fleets. ELOKON automated safety and driver assistance systems are OEM-agnostic for most manufacturers. If we’re unsure, we’ll contact your forklift manufacturer to check. Compatibility ensures that your safety solutions will work properly and efficiently, and that begins with designing solutions with good coverage in mind.
Simplicity, specificity, and compatibility are important features to look for in the best forklift safety systems. These features will improve the safety of any material handling team, which is why we build ELOKON solutions to offer them. Now, let’s take a look at different types of lift truck safety systems and how they can be implemented around the warehouse.
Types of Lift Truck Safety Systems
Different lift truck safety systems protect different areas of the warehouse. In addition to seatbelts, horns, and headlights, material handling teams can install active safety systems to go the extra mile in improving safety. Forklift fleet managers, proximity detectors, and zoning systems together form the best forklift safety systems because they comprehensively protect the warehouse. Let’s look at how each type of lift truck safety system improves safety within a material handling environment.
Forklift Fleet Managers
Forklift fleet managers keep fleet leaders organized and the fleet itself well-maintained. Effective management is critical to tracking maintenance schedules, operating times, and impacts. Doing so ensures that your fleet is ready to handle the demands of the modern warehouse. A monitored and maintained fleet is a safe one, and lift truck safety systems like ELOKON’s ELOfleet offer these features and more to help teams manage fleets, even if they’re spread across different sites. ELOfleet smart fleet management system increases fleet visibility for a safer warehouse.
Proximity Detectors
The best forklift safety systems also include proximity detectors. Depending on the solution, proximity detectors can alert forklift drivers of pedestrians, other vehicles, and objects within a certain range. ELOKON solutions can emit a vibration and acoustic alarm and be set to slow the vehicle to alert the driver and reduce the chance of a collision. We’ll explore ELOKON’s proximity detection solutions a little later in this article.
Zoning Systems
Zoning systems are efficient forklift safety systems because they provide specific protection for designated areas throughout the warehouse. High-risk areas like entranceways pose a constant risk for forklift-related collisions, making zoning systems great solutions for mitigating this risk. ELOKON zoning solutions allow teams to specify the hazardous areas, and the modules can automatically reduce the speed of the vehicles driving in or through that area, depending on the solution. Zoning systems are simple solutions for complex warehouse areas.
Forklift fleet managers, proximity detectors, and zoning systems together create the best forklift safety system for a warehouse. Because each offers unique safety benefits, implementing these systems provides comprehensive coverage to better protect your workforce and warehouse. Now, we’ll explore what ELOKON fork truck safety systems are available to transform safety for your team.