Warehouse Safety Solutions
As the modern warehouse becomes more and more complex, material handling teams need to know how to best keep their employees safe. Accidents are more likely to occur when demands increase unless the right warehouse safety solutions are implemented. However, with so many warehouse safety products available on the market, which ones should your team implement?
There’s a wide range of safety solutions to choose from, so here we’ll explore a couple of them. Material handling teams can always improve warehouse forklift safety, so leadership should keep current on the latest developments in safety technology. But first, we’ll briefly revisit why warehouse forklift safety is so important in material handling.
Warehouse Forklift Safety
Warehouse forklift safety is important–let’s explore why it is. Warehouse safety solutions are designed to protect both employees and the working environment from harm. Because warehouses and material handling workspaces are rife with collision hazards, it’s necessary to implement a number of safety procedures to mitigate these risks beyond what’s legally required. Increased warehouse forklift safety is imperative for these reasons:
- Decreased accidents, injuries, and deaths
- Reduced damage to company property
- Mitigated legal fees
- Lowered insurance premiums
- Increased productivity and employee morale
These benefits of warehouse forklift safety save time, reduce effort, and protect lives. Now, we’ll take a deep dive into warehouse safety products so your team can realize these benefits as soon as possible.
Warehouse Safety Products
1. Personal Protective Equipment
PPE that includes bright colors and high-vis clothing is an important warehouse safety product for increasing awareness of the presence of pedestrian employees. These bright colors and reflective patches can remind drivers to go slow and maintain caution not only around pedestrians but in the warehouse environment in general. While a passive safety feature, any little bit of effort helps keep the warehouse safe.
2. Signage and Mirrors
Proper forklift route signage, safety signs, and mirrors are vital for warning both pedestrian employees and drivers to keep a lookout for moving forklifts and other MHEs. Warnings and other hazards need to be posted around the warehouse to keep team members updated on the risks in the working environment. Like PPE, signage and mirrors are warehouse safety products that don’t actively prevent accidents but are still critical components of warehouse safety that increase risk awareness.
3. Active Safety Systems
Active safety systems are invaluable warehouse safety products because they prevent collisions without driver intervention. This eliminates the human error aspect of accidents, making warehouses a safer place to work. These warehouse safety solutions can rely on technology like UWB and smart laser tech for proximity detection and automatically reduce the speed of the equipped vehicle. Active safety systems save effort and lives.
Each of these warehouse safety products prevents forklift-related accidents to an extent. However, active safety systems are particularly effective at detecting collision risks before they lead to an accident. Next, we’ll take an in-depth look at ELOKON warehouse safety equipment and how it actively prevents forklift-related collisions.
Warehouse Safety Equipment
While PPE, signage, and mirrors are valuable aspects of warehouse forklift safety, ELOKON safety systems proactively mitigate collision risks. Warehouse safety equipment from ELOKON actively detects possible collision hazards and prevents accidents before they happen. Our solutions increase warehouse forklift safety, demonstrating your commitment to your employees’ well-being and dedication to bringing your warehouse into the future. Let’s explore these different types of warehouse safety equipment and how they improve safety around the warehouse.
ELOfleet
ELOfleet is our cloud-based forklift fleet management solution to simplify fleet organization and optimization. ELOfleet offers a number of features to facilitate fleet management, including maintenance schedules, pre-op checklists, and authorized driver sign-on. With RFID log-in capabilities, ELOfleet can record driver time and productivity so your team can improve operations as necessary. The web-based dashboard displays other KPIs to improve fleet function, regardless of vehicle manufacturer or warehouse site. ELOfleet improves fleet visibility and team communication, ensuring that your forklifts are ready to be operated. This warehouse safety equipment solution improves safety and fleet procedures.
ELOshield
ELOshield is a line of warehouse safety solutions that employ UWB technology for proximity detection. This warehouse safety equipment has the capability of detecting potential collision risks and slowing or stopping the equipped vehicle to prevent an accident from occurring. The ELOshield line consists of four iterations, each designed to eliminate collision risks in specific warehouse scenarios:
- ELOshieldGO– Pedestrian to Vehicle Detection
- ELOshieldDRIVE– Vehicle to Vehicle Detection
- ELOshieldZONE– Collision Prevention in Fixed Position Areas
- ELOshieldSPEED– Automatic Speed Adaptation in Specified Zones
ELOprotect and ELOprotect ACS
ELOKON’s portfolio of warehouse safety equipment also includes ELOprotect and ELOprotect ACS–both designed to safeguard VNAs, with ELOprotect ACS being better suited for larger VNA areas. VNAs are necessary parts of a warehouse, albeit dangerous. ELOprotect and ELOprotect ACS are warehouse safety solutions that increase VNA visibility by slowing or stopping the equipped vehicle upon detecting pedestrian employees, other vehicles, and objects in its path. When using ELOprotect and ELOprotect ACS, your team can be confident while navigating these particularly risky areas.
ELOspeed
Our warehouse safety equipment solution for indoor/outdoor speed control is ELOspeed. By using radar to detect overhead superstructures, ELOspeed slows down the equipped vehicle upon detecting warehouse roofs. When the vehicle leaves the warehouse, the driver can operate the vehicle at top speeds as allowed. These transition areas inherently pose significant collision risks due to differences in brightness and vehicle speeds, and ELOspeed can eliminate these risks by automatically regulating the speed of your vehicle.
ELOKON offers comprehensive warehouse safety solutions by addressing safety pain points from different areas of the warehouse. From fleet management to automated speed control, ELOKON safety solutions have your material handling team covered.