Industrial Truck Safety Systems

Industrial Truck Safety Systems

 

Industries that rely on material handling, such as warehousing, distribution, and manufacturing, need effective industrial truck safety systems. These industries face demanding working conditions, leaving employees vulnerable to forklift-related collisions and other accidents involving material-handling vehicles. Safety may take the back seat when employees are focused on the task at hand. However, modern forklift safety systems can automate safety, mitigating human error.

Here, we’ll discuss what forklift safety systems are available to increase employee safety in material handling, as well as forklift pedestrian safety systems. We’ll also explore how to integrate your new forklift safety system to ensure a seamless transition and a quick increase in safety.

When employee safety is critical to the success of material handling, teams should invest in effective safety solutions to protect both their team and their goals.

Types of Forklift Safety Systems

New technologies have transformed forklift safety systems, making them more reliable. While traditional forklift safety systems like signage and designated routes are necessary to increase awareness of material handling, ELOKON has a portfolio of solutions that actively prevent MHE collisions and related accidents in the warehouse. Our solutions increase safety in different ways, including:

  • Proximity detection and collision avoidance, like ELOshieldDRIVE and ELOprotect ACS
  • Zoning and Automatic Speed Reduction, such as ELOshieldZONE, ELOshieldSPEED, and ELOspeed
  • Forklift Fleet Management with ELOfleet

We’ll explore each of these solutions and how they are dependable forklift safety systems.

 

ELOshieldDRIVE

ELOshieldDRIVE utilizes UWB technology to detect potential collision risks between equipped material-handling vehicles. ELOshieldDRIVE can sound a configurable alarm once proximity is detected within the protection and warning zones. Your team can customize the size and shape of the protection and warning zones, as well as the driver action needed to resume normal vehicle operation.

 

ELOprotect ACS

ELOprotect ACS safeguards very narrow aisles (VNAs), which are complacent and critical spaces in any warehouse. ELOprotect uses smart laser technology to detect other vehicles in the VNAs that are in proximity to the equipped vehicle. With a customizable range and sensitivity, your team can configure ELOprotect ACS to best secure your VNA team.

 

ELOshieldZONE

ELOshieldZONE is our fixed position proximity detection system that uses UWB tech. This industrial truck safety system is installed above high-traffic areas like aisle entrances and gates and automatically reduces the speed of nearby vehicles. This protects both MHE operators and pedestrian employees in areas that experience high traffic.

 

ELOshieldSPEED

ELOshieldSPEED is another ELOshield iteration that uses UWB to automatically slow vehicles down when they enter a specific area. The ELOshieldSPEED module is placed above the entrance of a particular warehouse area, and any equipped vehicle that passes through will automatically be slowed down. This industrial truck safety system ensures that MHEs are operated at safe speeds to avoid accidents and collisions.

 

ELOspeed

ELOspeed is another one of our industrial truck safety systems that is designed to regulate lift truck speeds between indoor/outdoor transition areas. ELOspeed is a forklift safety system that keeps both pedestrian employees and forklift operators safe in these high-risk warehouse areas. Although there is no federal forklift speed limit within the warehouse, forklifts can operate at top speeds in outside working areas, causing a dangerous speed differential in these transition areas. By using radar to detect warehouse roofs, ELOspeed removes the guesswork from returning to a safe driving speed for drivers. This makes the warehouse safer to navigate.

 

ELOfleet

Our smart forklift fleet management system, ELOfleet, is also an ELOKON forklift safety system. ELOfleet makes fleet management intuitive and simple, empowering teams to improve productivity. The smartphone app interface streamlines authorized driver sign-ons, pre-ops checklists, and more. The web-based dashboard facilitates important KPIs like uptime, impact statistics, and maintenance schedules. ELOfleet works with mixed fleets and fleets across different sites, allowing teams to make informed decisions to make fleet operations safer.


We’ve designed ELOKON forklift safety systems to automate MHE safety. But what about forklift pedestrian safety systems, solutions that are specifically designed to protect pedestrian employees? Next, we’ll explore such solutions so that your team can effectively safeguard all employees.

Modern Forklift Pedestrian Safety Systems

Companies that rely on material handling to streamline operations have a lot of options when it comes to modern forklift pedestrian safety systems. These solutions include:

  • High-vis PPE and vehicle horns
  • Safety lights and mirrors
  • Active forklift pedestrian safety systems, like ELOshieldGO and ELOprotect

Industrial truck safety systems like high-vis PEE and lift truck safety lights are critical components of warehouse safety. However, teams can choose additional safety systems to actively prevent pedestrian-lift truck collisions. Such solutions include ELOshieldGO and ELOprotect.

 

ELOshieldGO

ELOshieldGO, like other iterations of ELOshield, utilizes UWB to protect warehouse employees. When an equipped pedestrian employee enters the warning/protection zone of an equipped vehicle, the ELOshieldGO system can sound different, configurable alarms. These alarms can be audible, visual, and/or vibrational alarms, and the vehicle can be automatically slowed down to prevent collisions. Multiple pedestrians can also be detected simultaneously.

 

ELOprotect

Our other forklift pedestrian safety system protects pedestrian employees in VNAs. Like ELOprotect ACS, ELOprotect uses smart laser technology to scan for pedestrians in the VNA areas bidirectionally. When ELOprotect senses a person in the aisle, it automatically slows the lift truck to a stop, and when the risk of collision has passed, the driver can press a button to acknowledge the incident to resume normal operations.

ELOshieldGO and ELOprotect are effective forklift pedestrian safety systems explicitly designed to safeguard pedestrian employees, whereas our other solutions also protect them. Implementing more than one safety system drastically improves safety and allows them to complement each other, creating a safer ecosystem. While our safety systems use the latest tech to prevent forklift-related collisions, integration is simple, enabling teams to achieve a safer workplace as soon as possible.

Integrating Your Forklift Safety System

At ELOKON, we prioritize easy yet effective safety solutions. Our solutions are straightforward to streamline implementation. ELOKON automated safety and driver assistance systems are also:

  • OEM-agnostic
  • Turnkey ready
  • User-friendly

These features help teams deploy ELOKON solutions as soon as possible. Our experts are always available to answer any questions, ensuring smooth integration. We offer customized solutions and additional training to make sure your team finds the safety systems it needs to power the world.

 

Instantly Increase Safety With ELOKON

Our engineers at ELOKON are dedicated to developing the world’s leading safety solutions. Material handling is necessary to keep the world going– and we’ve created the tools needed to keep it safe. Through intuitive and OEM design, ELOKON automated safety and driver assistance systems transform work floor safety and integrate seamlessly into workflows. Contact us today to get started on increasing team safety.

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