Hoosiermoker, I am all for safety in a workplace. I believe in training for situation awareness and common sense over technology. Technology has been known to fail at the most crucial moments. Even backup redundancies should never take the place of human awareness of their surroundings This should include everyone pedestrians and operators, but more importantly their supervisors who I often call stupidvisors due to their lack of understanding that there are times when floor personnel and forklifts must occupy the same areas at the same time. During those times the operators need to be restricted to slow concise maneuvering.

Recently I visited a big box store to purchase something I noticed they had a whole isle cordoned off while workers were restocking. A very necessary safety protocol to prevent a customer from wandering into a work zone. Then 1 of the barriers was moved to the side and a forklift came roaring in Pell Mell t full speed with a pallet of drywall drops his forks till the pallet touched the ground slid to a stop, and was backing up before the pallet had stopped sliding on the floor The guy with the clipboard and a green hard hat made a check mark and yelled to the operator you need to hurry every chance you get. The 4 workers reemerged from between the racks where they had sought refuge just shaking their heads at the pallet with the drywall half askew from the sudden stop/
If I had been the manager I would have reprimanded green hat and the operator