More Forklift Safety - Overturning Forklifts
A forklift is a workplace vehicle, and operators and employers are encouraged to keep a daily checklist and to put employees through forklift training. Forklifts can mean great things to the bottom lines of companies. Forkifts were and designed to help lift, carry and stack heavy loads.
Forklifts are used in workplaces such as warehouses, factories and freight terminals to perform most of the heavy lifting and stacking.
This week’s Forklift Safety:
Over Turned Forklifts:
Make sure all drivers of your forklift have the proper training and safety and make sure operators understand that forklifts are not a game or a toy. Statistics report almost half of all people injured by forklifts are struck by a forklift driven by someone else. Below we have outlined how a forklift can overturn:
- Driving too fast
- Making Sharp unnessecary turns
- Driving with a rasied load
- Any type of work on a slope or incline
Next week: What to do if a forklift overturns.
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