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Posted By George Wedgwood
I am investigating ways of reducing risk from FLTs that can travel around 10 - 15 mph and occasionally come near to pedestrian drivers who may be out of their cab. I think governing the speed may work and some manufacturers can do this. I understand that this is only one pedestrian safety control but we are working on all the others.
Has anyone any other experience of limiting FLT speeds?
Thanks, George
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Posted By Merv Newman
George,
I know warehouses are very tricky. Drivers and truckies have to be on the ground quite a lot, and there is no easy way to separte FLTs from pedestrians. I know a few companies which have gone the speed limiter route and management seem happy with the situation. One plant reported having to take on about 5% more drivers to compensate for the lost time - a very large plant with just-in-time delivery to production lines. Slowing down delivery speeds with the same number of drivers would have slowed down production. Can't have that.
Merv
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Posted By Matthew Brown
We have reduced the speed on all forklifts to 12mph, measured using a speed gun.
This has not slowed down the process. Obviously we still have drivers out of trucks and we have found there is little you can do about this. They all wear hi-vis jackets.
We have banned non essenatial pedestrians from all FLT operating areas, this has helped.
We did look at installing automtaic speed reduction systems when forklifts entered certain areas but they didn't appear to work that well.
We have fitted cameras to the trucks both front and back to help eliminate blind spots.
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Posted By Gerry Knowles
I did some work for a large company in the south west who had a large fleet of electrically powered FLTs and tow tractors. The incident levels were high and solution was required. Investigations showed a culture of high speeds and carelessness. We decided to monitor the drives and found a product called truclog. This is in effect a black box and records speeds and impact levels. It can be set to lock the truck out after impacts and requires drivers to log on the truck with a pin. It reduces to nil unauthorised use and allows investigation of drivers and collisions.
It worked for them it reduced incidents of collisions and other related incidents by about 98%. It also had a significent effect on the amount of time and effort required in maintenance of trucks and repairs to the factory infrastructure.
I have forgotten the manufacturers name but they were based in the midlands. Im sure that if you put truclog into the internet you will get the right people.
Hope this helps
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Posted By Gerry Knowles
It just came to me TRUCKLOG is supplied by a company called Davis Derby
Gerry
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Posted By George Wedgwood
Thanks for all this good info - it is at least encouraging that others have had similar problems and moved towards controls that help. I have now had Board support for fitting all new FLTs with speed controls, set at our Site limit, which is 5 mph. We are also fitting the didBOX key control system to all new supply vehicles and progressively retro-fitting to our 500+ fleet of Site mobile plant. So it's encouraging progress but more needs done to get risks down further - how do you achieve a balance between cost effective drivers who are bored, like taking risks and only earn a pittance, without trying to employ fully trained technicians who would not drive a truck for more that a week without going mad! I think personal recognition may help and some sort of award scheme may help but it's a delicate decision to take. George
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