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Factory light projection safety system.
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I am guessing that is some of your OSHA BS in action. Does the guy get written up if he happens to walk outside of the designated walk path.
Makes me glad I never worked in a place like that in my over 60 years in the workforce. 45 of those 60 either working for myself or as a consulting contractor.
Hi Gang:
The factory where I worked the fork lifts had the right of way. They were carrying the profits to market which paid our wages.
And yes, we would get written up for walking in the forklift lanes.
Carl.
As a safety manager, we look for ways to improve safety through increased awareness of the potential hazards surrounding standard operations. If we could implement a light system that doesn't impede any of our operations but alerts pedestrians to forklift activity in the area, I don't see why we WOULDN'T implement it. OSHA has nothing to do with it, these type of systems aren't promoted or required by OSHA, they're just good for business. Incidents and injuries are much more expensive than safety systems like the one shown here are to install. We're looking to implement a light and sounder system to reduce the risk of forklift vs employee incidents. I'm not sure why anyone would be resistant to implementing measures to reduce injuries?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
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
The chance that technology could fail is one I'm always willing to risk for all the times it doesn't. My training always teaches personal responsibility with phrases like "and with all of the safety features we've implemented, if you get hit by a forklift, when you get out of the hospital there will be a write up waiting for you if you still have a job!" There's just no downside to improving safety with new, proven technology.