Facility Safety Systems
Industries that rely on material handling support innovation around the world. Even though supply chains may experience strain and high demands, material handling teams still press on. They meet quotas on time and ensure that all operations remain smooth. However, with increased demands and pressure on quicker logistics, mistakes–often fatal–can occur, costing lives, progress, and resources. While your team is powering the world, what tools do you have in place to support your team?
As your organization faces higher demand, it should have facility safety systems in place to protect your workforce. While your team members are busy and focusing, accidents and collisions can easily occur, abruptly halting productivity–unless your team relies on anti-collision tools.
Here, we’ll assess forklift proximity sensors and other forklift safety products available for your team. Modern tech has allowed these facility safety systems to raise safety standards without decreasing productivity or changing operations. But first, we’ll explore common warehouse forklift safety hazards and which of these solutions are built to mitigate each hazard.
Common Warehouse Forklift Safety Hazards
1. Fleet Mismanagement
Fleet mismanagement is a common warehouse forklift safety hazard and can lead to accidents. Uncertified driver access, uncompleted pre-op checklists, and missed maintenance increase the risk of forklift-related accidents, potentially leading to injuries and death. Better fleet management is a great first step in improved warehouse safety, and a facility safety system like ELOfleet is a powerful approach to increased fleet visibility for a safer work floor.
2. Equipment Failures
A snowball effect of fleet mismanagement is equipment failures. Missed maintenance can cause seemingly random equipment failures in the middle of operation, putting drivers and anyone else around at risk of injury. Brakes, hydraulics, batteries, and more can fail if the material handling vehicle is not well maintained. Warehouse forklift safety software like ELOfleet can help your team ensure that equipment issues are addressed right away and caught early on.
3. Blind Spots
The warehouse presents many blind spots– putting lift truck operators and employees at risk of collision. Blind spots in a material handling environment include aisle entrances, indoor/outdoor transition areas, VNAs, storage racks, and the structure of lift trucks themselves. Drivers need to remain alert, which can exhaust their awareness. To prevent hazard desensitization, material handling teams rely on facility safety systems that automatically prevent collisions, like ELOshield, ELOprotect, and ELOspeed.
4. Shared Spaces Between Pedestrians and MHE
Warehouse spaces with mixed traffic are at a higher risk of collisions. Even though shared spaces are necessary, they pose common forklift safety hazards that put employees in danger. However, there are facility safety systems that can protect pedestrians, operators and their vehicles, and autonomous robots as they move about these shared spaces. ELOKON solutions such as ELOshieldZONE, ELOvision, ELOprotect, and ELOprotect ACS keep employees, vehicles, and equipment secure, even in busy shared warehouse areas.
5. Lift Truck Speeding
Even though there isn’t a set forklift speed limit for warehouses, drivers should maintain reasonable speeds so that they can stop their vehicles in time to prevent accidents. High-traffic aisle entrances, gateways, and indoor/outdoor transition areas are warehouse areas where drivers should be particularly cautious. ELOKON’s ELOshieldSPEED and ELOspeed ensure that drivers maintain safe speeds at designated points in the warehouse.
These five common warehouse safety issues may seem innocuous, but they can easily cause significant loss of life, resources, and trust. Luckily, modern tech has allowed us to develop effective solutions for protecting various aspects of the warehouse. Next, we’ll explore how to narrow down which forklift proximity sensor is right for your warehouse safety needs.
Finding the Right ELOKON Forklift Proximity Sensor
At ELOKON, our mission is to simplify anti-collision safety. Our forklift proximity sensor solution automates proximity detection, offering easy integration and user-friendly navigation. Our forklift proximity sensor solutions include:
- ELOshieldGO– UWB Pedestrian to Vehicle Proximity Detection
- ELOshieldDRIVE – UWB Vehicle to Vehicle Proximity Detection
- ELOprotect– Smart Laser Pedestrian Safety System for VNAs
- ELOprotect ACS– Smart Laser Anti Collision System for VNAs
- ELOvision– AI-Camera-Based Forklift Safety and Collision Avoidance System
Our forklift proximity sensor solutions are powerful and dependable, automatically sensing potential collision hazards around different areas of the warehouse. ELOprotect and ELOprotect ACS safeguard pedestrians and drivers in VNAs, and ELOshieldGO, ELOshieldDRIVE, and ELOvision can protect them in virtually any warehouse area. However, collision risks still exist in specific warehouse situations, such as certain high-traffic areas like aisle entrances and indoor/outdoor transition areas, which need specific forklift safety products. Next, we’ll take a look at ELOKON solutions that solve these safety gaps.
Additional ELOKON Forklift Safety Products
A warehouse can’t be overly secure, and when forklift safety products are so easy to implement, it makes no sense not to employ them. Our facility safety systems offer comprehensive safety coverage so that your warehouse is thoroughly protected. Our other forklift safety products include:
- ELOshieldZONE– UWB Proximity Detection, Zoning
-Automatically reduces the speed of approaching vehicles at aisle entrances, gateways, and similar warehouse points - ELOshieldSPEED– UWB Speed Adaptation, Zoning
-Reduces vehicle speed throughout a specific warehouse area, ideal for areas that see mixed traffic - ELOspeed– Radar-Based Indoor/Outdoor Speed Control
-Lowers the speed of the vehicle as it returns to indoor warehouse areas based on the detection of the warehouse roof
These forklift lift safety products are built to safeguard different areas of the warehouse, especially those that see different collision hazards.
A safety ecosystem isn’t complete with thorough forklift fleet management tools. At ELOKON, we’ve developed solutions to streamline forklift fleet management and offer high visibility. They include:
- ELOfleet– Smart, Cloud-Based Forklift Fleet Management
- ELOfusion– Single-Point ELOKON Solution Control
When you employ one or more of ELOKON’s solutions, you close dangerous safety gaps, ensuring the health of your employees. When fleets are managed well, and warehouses are secure, teams can drive progress, powering the world.
Find Comprehensive Safety Solutions at ELOKON
At ELOKON, we’re committed to developing reliable facility safety systems so the whole warehouse is protected. Pedestrian employees and MHE operators are safer when ELOKON solutions are deployed. Our comprehensive automated safety and driver assistance solutions save lives and improve productivity in any warehouse. Contact us today to make your facility a safer place to work.