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8 Forklift Safety Hazards

A top prioroty for anyone managing forklift operations must be to uphold safety. What does this look like day-to-day?

Don't Overspend on Repairs

How can you make sure your equipment is working in top condition without spending too much?

The Importance of Pre-Shift Inspections

Pre-shift forklift inspections should be a cornerstone of your culture of safety. Get your questions answered.

Forklifts & Equipment

3 Reasons Forklifts Overheat

To help maintain your maintenance budget and business efficiency, the first step is identifying why your forklift is overheating.

Inspecting Hydraulic Hoses

While major aspects of the forklift such are part of its inspection, hydraulic hoses may be overlooked.

Battery Recycling

Battery Recycling is the processing of used or abandoned Batteries. Learn about the process here.

Optimize Fleet Battery Inventory

These tips will help you determine and maintain the right number of lead-acid batteries needed to support your fleet.

The Best Energy Options

Temperature and other environmental factors make a big difference in the type of options you’ll want to use.

Convert to Electric Forklifts

Driving this growth in the electric forklift market are two primary considerations: costs and environmental concerns.

Selecting Forklift Battery Chargers

Selecting the best forklift battery is critical for maintaining a healthy battery. It's equally important the battery has enough charge.

Having the Right Forks

If your forklift isn't new, you may be at higher risk for having forks that aren’t compatible.

Buying Forklifts In Your Budget

Replacing or adding to your current forklift fleet may seem impossible. However, four common options can offer a solution.

Prevent Damage to Your Forklift Forks

Keeping your forks in good repair and working properly is imperative to ensuring you can use your forklift to lift things.

Dirty Forklifts Are OSHA Violations

Industrial trucks shall be kept in a clean condition, free of lint, excess oil and grease, according to OSHA.

Forklift Tires Replacement

Rorklift tire replacement is often overlooked. Regularly evaluating your forklift tires will help decrease accidents.

Forklift Fuel Options

Electric vs Internal Combustion, Advantages. LP vs Gas/Diesel vs CNG Powered forklifts, making the right decisions when buying.

Forklift Tire Options

Some forklifts use only a specific tire. It is important to know the best forklift tire options for your application.

Finding the Best Forklift Options

There is a perception that forklifts are commodities. Resolving site specific challenges is best achieved with options.

Battery: Fast & Opportunity Charging

Companies must consider forklift battery charging options such as fast and opportunity charging.

How Long Should You Lease?

You’ve weighed the pros and cons of leasing your forklift versus a purchase and have decided to lease.

Forklift Leasing Vs Forklift Purchase

Forklift leasing is a common business practice. Work with a forklift dealer to help determine the best purchase decision.

Reducing Forklift Downtime

Helpful tips on how to reduce forklift downtime and keep your units up and running

Forklift UL Ratings

Concerned your current forklift doesn’t have the UL rating needed for your facility? Learn more about the requirements here.

Replacing Forklift Tires

Bad forklift tires can be a serious safety issue that creates stability issues for the forklift and its load.

Forklift Rental Purchase Option

If you have a long-term needa forklift rental purchase option (RPO) is a solution for your company.

Forklift Rental: What To Expect

For immediate needs, short-term projects and specialty lifts, the solution is renting. What are the right expectations?

Buy, Rent, or Lease?

Buying, renting, and leasing forklifts all have their own unique advantages but it doesn't have to be a long process.

Forklift Pricing 101

Making the right choice when investing in material handling equipment is very much caught up in its cost.

Selecting A Forklift Battery

The forklift battery is a large investment for your electric forklift.

Selecting a Forklift Mast

Forklift masts are basic components of a forklift. It’s important you have the correct type on your forklift.

Should You Reduce Your Fleet?

It's important to invest only in equipment that you need to keep your budget in line for forklift maintenance and labor costs.

Purchasing a Forklift

Ordering a new or used forklift for your company is an ideal time for an application survey.

Selecting the Best Energy Source

Selecting the appropriate energy source is a choice that depends significantly on the needs of your specific operation.

Demoing Forklift Equipment

A demo answers the concern of having the right type of equipment for your application.

Toyota Forklift Advantages

If you are considering purchasing or renting a Toyota Forklift, you may be wondering how Toyota compares.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Forklifts

Environmental concerns and availability of natural resources are driving the need to find a sustainable, long-term renewable energy solutions.

Electric VS IC Forklifts

Established companies may also weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each fuel, especially if there is a shift of priorities to “go green.”

Internal Combustion Forklift Operation

Because automobiles use the same type of engine, many people are familiar with an internal combustion (IC) engine.

Removing the Wrong Forklift Rental

My company has a forklift rental but I’ve realized the equipment isn’t fitting our production needs. What steps do I take to secure a better rental?

Rental vs. Purchase

When production at your company begins to gradually increase or a short-term project is announced, whether or not to invest in additional forklifts is a key question.

Reserving a Forklift Rental

With a rental in stock, we can prep and schedule your delivery the next day, sometimes within hours.

How Long should You Lease?

The most common mistake customers make is predetermining their lease term based on historical preference.

Operations

Connectivity Transforms Service

Connectivity promises greater service and maintenance for your equipment and fleets. Learn the benefits.

Post COVID-19 Operations

COVID-19 continues to reshape and challenge distribution facilities and supply chains.

Fleet Analytics: Action & Savings

Forklift fleet analytics gives you data on the health of your forklifts and ultimately, your business.

Forklift Fleet Management Reports

Knowing the actual activity of a forklift and/or forklift operator is the first step in determining the cost of operating a fleet.

Realign Your Fleet

Using a forklift fleet management system to track the operating behavior of a forklift and/or forklift operation will help to highlight areas within your facility that need a revamp.

Fuel Consumption and Efficiency

When attempting to decrease your forklift’s fuel consumption, there is not one specific change that will greatly alter usage.

Site Surveys & Your Operations

A site survey is when a trained warehouse consultant visits a work space to help maximize the business’ work place.

Facility Energy Audits

A facility energy audit helps to identify opportunities where you may increase efficiency and lower operational costs.

Safety

3 Most Common Incidents

Nearly 100,000 workers are seriously injured by a forklift-involved accidents each year in the US.

Avoid OSHA Fines

When it comes to willful and repeat violations, penalties have gone up from $70,000 to $126,000 per violation.

Choosing Forklift Safety Accessories

Forklift safety accessories can be effective for accident prevention. They should never replace the use of standard equipment.

Surviving an OSHA Inspection

OSHA announced an important policy change that could potentially have a significant impact on small business owners.

Pre-Shift Inspection Basics

Operator safety and skills need attention. Your company must also emphasize the importance of forklift inspection.

Enhance Your Forklift Safety Training

While you know that no one wants to be injured, the topic of forklift safety gets lost in the fast-paced work environment.

Benefits of Forklift Safety Training

Justifying the cost and the time needed to conduct safety training for your forklift fleet can be a struggle.

Common Signals of Forklift Abuse

If an operator or the application of a forklift causes equipment damage beyond normal wear and tear, it is considered forklift abuse.

Do Videos Qualify As Training?

Some trainers and companies have opted to use forklift safety training videos to meet requirements.

Forklift Floor and Operating Surfaces

An unloaded standard forklift at 5,000 lbs. of rated lift capacity weighs 9,000 lbs. and can increase to 14,000 lbs.

Housekeeping

Warehouse housekeeping is important to the safe and proper operation of a forklift within your facility.

Forklift Precautions in Cold Weather

During the winter season we must stay alert to factors such as temperature, snow, sleet, ice, etc.

Top 10 OSHA Violations of 2020

Year after year, forklift-related violations show up in OSHA’s Top 10 most common citations.

Importance of Forklift Pre-Inspections

OSHA requires that all forklifts be inspected before shifts at least once a day.

Safety Training with Your Employer

Having the employer ultimately responsible for providing training is a benefit to the employee and company.

Inspecting Forks

Inspecting forks daily can ensure safer operation and should concentrate on 3 areas: fork hooks, heels and tips.

Know Your Forklift Trip Points

Here is a list of potential trip points to keep in mind when operating a forklift.

Warehouse Lighting Requirements

Per OSHA, companies are required to provide a minimum of two lumens per square foot in areas with heavy equipment in use.

Managing Worker Fatigue

One of the best ways to make sure your business continues to flow and flow safely, is to make sure you and your employees avoid worker fatigue.

“Safety Triangle” of Forklift Training

On the first side of the triangle, under OSHA Regulation 1910.178(L), employers have to train our forklift operators.

Forklift Overhead Guards

The forklift overhead guard protects an operator from falling loads. Some overhead guards are designed to “crush and deflect.”

Forklift Operator Seat Ergonomics

One of the most important assets to your company is your group of dedicated employees and as the employer your goal is to reduce the risk of injury of your employees.

Pedestrian Safety Tips

Pedestrians are involved in about 40% of all forklift accidents. There are many reasons for this, but one is – we have told pedestrians most of their lives that they have the right of way!

Using Forklift Extensions

Pretty much, many of us use them. But, what do we need to know about them, other than the fact that they make our original forks longer?

Why Conduct Safety Training?

Why do we train our Operators? Not only is it to save lives and cut down on injuries, it’s required by law!

Top 10 OSHA Violations (2019)

Patrick Kapust, Deputy Director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, presented the agency’s top 10 violations for the fiscal year of 2019.

Harness & Body Belt Inspection

If you repair or operate an order picker or aerial lift, it’s important to remember to check not only your vehicle you are going to use before you use it, but the harness that may save your life.

Safety Seat Switches

ANSI, the American National Standard Institute, under the B56 standards, mandates that the operator of a powered industrial truck, or forklift, must be seated in the normal operating position on the forklift before it can travel.

It’s “That Time of Year” Again

With the temperature dropping, typically the dock doors are closed more hours of the day, which for many companies means less air circulation. This can lead to problems that could be ignored during the warmer times of the year, but not this time of the year.

Checked Your Nameplate Lately?

Nameplates, data tags, or capacity tags are just some names they are called by. They are an important part of your forklift. These tags need to be legible and on the truck. They also need to reflect the attachments that may be on your forklift, as stated in the following OSHA regulations.

Forklift Accidents: 4 Main Types

A forklift tip over is the number one accident involving a forklift. OSHA’s Office of Data Analysis examined 53 investigative case files involving powered industrial Truck fatalities that occurred between 1980-1986 and found that the single largest accident was vehicle tipovers.

Do You Have A "Safe" Attitude?

A positive attitude towards safety will pay off in many ways. It saves you money, keeps you in your job and even saves your life.

Daily Checklists

OSHA requires that each "Powered Industrial Truck" is checked out before it is put into operation. Most companies use a "Daily Checklist" to inspect their equipment.

Workplace Hazards

This could include a number of things, such as narrow aisles, pedestrian traffic, hazardous locations (such as flammable gasses in the air), congested aisle ways, uneven floors or dirty, greasy floors.

Battery Safety

When you train your forklift operators, one of the topics that need to be discussed is the safe handling of batteries.

Service & Maintenance

Full Maintenance Plans

Businesses focused on getting more done with less outsource material handling equipment maintenance for success.

Planned Maintenance

10 things you can do to dramatically increase the longevity of your equipment and significantly reduce operating costs.

Dispatching a Forklift Service Technician

Similar to your personal vehicle, a forklift breakdown cannot be diagnosed over the phone.

In-House Tech VS Outsourcing

Both in-house forklift service technicians as well as outsourcing services have proven benefits.

Forklift Battery Maintenance

Forklift batteries must be properly maintained to reach their full potential. Improper maintenance cuts battery life 50%.

Brake Inspection & Replacement

Forklift operators are required to perform a pre-shift inspection. One item of focus is the brakes.

Forklift Carbon Monoxide Levels

When equipment is propane powered, carbon monoxide levels can build inside the warehouse or office area.

Forklift Rental Maintenance

To ensure reliable forklift rentals are available to our customers, we have put quality assurance checks in place.

Forklift Oil Leaks

Forklift oil leaks can be bothersome and expensive to fix. Be sure to fix issues and avoid safety hazards.

Tuning Forklifts for Optimal Performance

Understanding how settings affect forklift operation is the first step in realizing productivity and efficiency gains.

Watering Forklift Batteries

You should add water to the forklift battery after it's charged. Typically, batteries need watering 1x weekly.

Benefits of Full Maintenance Plans

For businesses focused on getting more done with less, outsourcing equipment maintenance can be key to success.

Why is My Forklift Overheating?

When operators notice the temperature gauge has risen into the “red zone”, a forklift must be tagged out of daily production to avoid causing damage to key components.

Guaranteed vs. Planned Maintenance

After investing in a new or used forklift, consideration should be made to enhancing the asset’s life through regular maintenance. The two most common options are guaranteed maintenance and planned maintenance.

Technology

Warehouse Automation Benefits

If you haven’t automated any of your warehouse functions, you may be missing out on key benefits for your business.

Telematics for Forklifts

Forklift telematics enable your fleet to run as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Toyota’s System of Active Stability (SAS)

This system includes an active control rear stabilizer and active mast function controller.

What Is A Connected Facility?

If you haven’t automated any of your warehouse functions, you may be missing out on key benefits for your business.

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