Category: Simulation promotes Safety

“A strong safety culture means practices and procedures that continue even when no one is watching … not about the posters on the wall or the “days-since-last-incident” signs [1],   No surprise, new employees (during the first year of employment) are responsible for about 1/3 of all workplace injuries, despite representing (...)

Operator training is the foundation of forklift safety [1]. And whether you’re working with lift trucks or any other kind of heavy equipment, being safe “means” no incidents, no accidents. And that’s why a good equipment operator is always, first and foremost, a safe equipment operator. The fact is, for every $1 spent (...)

As described in [1], learning any new skill, riding a bike or operating a lift truck, takes place in three stages: First, you work to understand what needs to be done, and focus on doing your best while avoiding “gross mistakes”, i.e. being careful. Later, after sufficient practice, you make (...)

Supply chain companies are increasingly looking to forklift telemetry (sometimes called telematics) to help improve lift truck operations [1], [2], [3]. Practically, specialized devices onboard collect real-time data about where the lift truck is (and where it was), using GPS, and how it’s moving around, using motion sensors, In particular, (...)

The Problem I once had a job applicant, he could talk a cat off a fish boat. That’s what an old hand working on the Gulf Coast told me (where there are, of course, real cats and real fish boats). Sadly, a study conducted just last year [1] found that (...)