Forklifts are operating in every major retailer and distribution center in America. Where there are forklifts there are products, standing obstacles such as racking, and pedestrians. What does this mean for you? It means liability and obligation of prevention. One of the quickest and most usable ways to prevent forklift accidents are Forklift Camera Systems. Lift Truck Supply’s online parts store offers several different types of easily-installed camera systems.
- Reduce Forklift Damage – Added visibility means fewer dents, scratches, or fork damage due to ill spaced turns, tail swings, reversals, and drop-offs.
- Reduce Product Damage – Minimize costly product loss with full views around your lift. By utilizing side, back up, and fork positioned cameras your operator will be more able to prevent bumps and drops of product pallets or racking falls. You will also see fewer chargebacks from your vendor due to less product damage during loading.
- Extended Protection – Extends the life of your lift and workforce by reducing accidents that could be catastrophic to personnel and the lift.
- Fork Views – Adds ability to view fork to pallet placement.
- Maximizes Work Hours – Speeds up processing and fulfillment times due to workers higher level of accuracy and reduction of product loss.
- Ergonomics – Reduce worker strain and repetitive stress by virtually eliminating the need to twist and bend the neck/body to check major blind spots.
- Pedestrians – Help prevent pedestrian injury by extending your operators visibility.
- Monitoring – Recordable Camera Systems will help monitor operator speeds and allow you to play back video of an accident. Some systems also come with alert monitors.
- Insurance Purposes – Systems may help lower insurance premiums. *see your insurance provider to find out if they offer this concession.
- OSHA – Helps to bring Lift into OSHA compliance. While OSHA does not have a specific rule maintaining that a forklift must be equipt with a camera system it does have a General Duty Clause (see below) that says an employer can avoid violating this clause by installing visual safety devices. If not you could be subject to a $12,934 OSHA penalty per violation. That is a steep penalty to pay for not thinking ahead.
OSHA Act, 29 U.S.C. § 654 (a)(1), also known as the General Duty Clause, to furnish employment and a place of employment, free from recognized hazards that are causing or a likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees, where employees are exposed to hazards, including but not limited to, struck by, caught-in-between and crushing by the forklift. B56.1-2009 shows that industry recognizes this hazard and that equipping trucks with sound-producing and visual devices are feasible means to abate this hazard. An employer whose workplace presents this hazard and has not taken feasible steps to mitigate this hazard may be in violation of the General Duty Clause.
Your worker and customer safety is a critical part of your forklift program. By adding Forklift Camera Systems to your fleet, you are helping your company avoid becoming an accident statistic or OSHA violator. Upgrade your visual forklift safety today by visiting our online parts store.
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