Forklift Safety
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If you own or are thinking of buying a forklift, safety should be high on your list of workplace requirements. Each year, tens of thousands of forklift-related injuries occur in the U.S. workplaces. Forklift safety can go a long way to preventing the injuries that occur when employees and lift trucks inadvertently are driven off loading docks or fall between docks or an unsecured trailer. Many employees who fail to use forklift safety also strike fellow co-workers or fall while they are on elevated pallets.
Because a co-worker failed to practice the accepted forklift safety requirements that were set in place by his employer, my brother-in-law was struck by a large forklift while at work. Just recently in a neighboring city a 70 year-old man misjudged the distance to a trench and drove his forklift over the edge. It was a job that he had done many times. Forklift safety comes into play more often with fairly routine jobs than with more dangerous jobs because employees can become lax.
Forklift safety doesn't just apply to people, although that is the most important factor in practicing forklift safety, but it also applies to property and the likelihood of losing hundreds and thousands of dollars to damage to products, overhead sprinklers, racking, pipes, walls and machinery. The most common forklift accidents can be attributed to lack of forklift safety in the form of lack of safe operating procedures, lack of safety-rule enforcement and insufficient or inadequate training.
