Digital Safety Checklist Improves Forklift Performance

Forklifts have become essential equipment or devices for efficient warehouse activities. If you are in the logistics industry, you might know what a multi-directional forklift or a regular forklift safety checklist would mean. A forklift safety checklist is one of the significant features in this industry to monitor and determine the efficiency of the vehicle. So, a forklift checklist is a mandatory task to be filled by the forklift operator every day or while completing their respective shifts. However, the primary idea behind filling out the checklist is to collect the necessary data.

Is the pencil checklist working?

If you are into this industry, you might know how a forklift operator will fill a safety checklist.

Pencil whipping:

When you use the same checklist daily, you might know what is already in, and the operators repeat specific actions. Pencil whipping is an action where the operators have an idea about the questions and quickly fill out the checklist. 

Half reading:

Another practice made by the forklift operator is reading the checklist without checking it twice. Most operators will be in a rush as soon as they finish their shift and fill the checklist with a 50% mindset. Thus, the operator will not go through the checklist entirely.

Advantages of adopting a digital checklist:

The paper checklist has its challenges, and switching to a digital checklist makes the job easier. The significant advantage of having a digital checklist is your data never gets displaced. Similarly, the collected information gets collected automatically and analyzed for better performance.

In the same way, the questions in the checklist are randomized, which allows the forklift operator to stay alert. The answers can also be mixed to avoid pencil whipping. The best part of the digital checklist is that the device does not start if you have not filled a checklist or if the forklift fails the inspection.

Hence, by incorporating the digital checklist, you can monitor the health of your forklift and analyze it accurately. Thus, approach Horvert for any container lifting machine to manage your in-house activities.