Does your company have a proactive or reactive approach to the health and safety of your workforce? Unfortunately all too often companies only address their employees’ safety after an incident has occurred involving a forklift truck, but is this reactive approach too little, too late?
According to the FLTA, every day at least one worker in the UK suffers serious, often life-changing injuries or worse, as a result of an incident involving a fork lift truck. These HSE results indicate that we’ve reached a plateau with regards to employee safety.
The health and safety of companies employees’ should be a top priority and every procedure and system should be put in place to ensure they are as safe as possible, in a working environment where forklift trucks and employees have to work in close proximity to one another on a regular basis.
Accidents involving forklift trucks can range from minor to severe, or even lead to loss of life. It seems that news headlines are increasingly reporting incidents where workers have been injured due to collisions with forklift trucks. When these accidents occur it is not only devastating to the employee and their family but it can also lead to increased costs for companies, resulting from injured employees being off sick, potential large fines and negative media coverage which could damage a company’s public image thereby adversely affecting your sales and revenue.
If you have a working environment where employees and industrial vehicles have to work in close proximity on a day to day basis, implementing a system like ZoneSafe can help to prevent accidents between pedestrian workers and forklifts, especially where visibility is impaired due to heavy loads or blind spots around the forklift truck.
Using RFID transponders, ZoneSafe is designed to help reduce the risk of both forklift to pedestrian worker and forklift to forklift collisions. ZoneSafe alerts forklift operators when RFID transponders worn by pedestrian workers are detected by a unit installed on a forklift truck. The system can also be installed at intersections to illuminate LED’s or beacons providing a warning to pedestrian workers of an approaching forklift truck.
Avonwood, the manufacturer of ZoneSafe, say that their system provides a layer of safety for pedestrian workers that builds upon existing safety systems and procedures. It makes drivers more aware of their environment and can change pedestrian worker behaviour, helping to reduce accidents and near miss occurrences involving forklift trucks.
ZoneSafe
Tony Hart, Sales Co-Ordinator
Tel: 01202 868000
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