Yale strategies for warehouse safety
Europe has seen dramatic growth in warehousing and related industries. With a greater workforce, comes greater potential for surging injury and illness rates. Warehouse operations need to make improvements to reduce injuries, and the lost days associated with them. Addressing the root causes of worker injuries and taking steps towards rethinking health and safety practices.
LIFT TRUCK safety is multi-faceted, site-specific and requires a comprehensive approach. Real-world warehouses can be busy, noisy and include hot and cold environments. Lift truck operators must carefully manoeuvre and place loads at significant heights and navigate tight spaces and congestion.
A properly administered forklift and pedestrian training programme is a highly effective means of significantly reducing forklift accidents. However, warehouses seeking additional support to prioritise safety within their operation can also evaluate opportunities to leverage technology and support from experienced lift truck operator training or fleet management professionals.
Lift truck technologies can provide varying types and degrees of support for managers or operators, such as providing a data-based view of problem areas or operating practices that require attention, helping to enhance situational awareness or even automatically reinforcing operating best practices. Solutions for real-world warehouse operations could include forklift telemetry solutions, like Yale Vision, or operator assist solutions, like Yale Reliant.
Every warehouse is unique. Technology can be an operational tool and additional layer of support for many forklift operations. However, the right solutions will always depend on the needs of the specific application.
