This paper details a forklift safety demonstration project undertaken at two manufacturing sites in Victoria,Australia. The
purpose of the work was both to help improve safety at the two sites,and, more broadly, to develop,help implement and evaluate a
series of human-centred design interventions involving vehicles and pedestrian workers. The ‘before’ and ‘after’ case study presented
here summarises the background to the research and introduces the test sites. Thereafter,it describes the overall nature of the safety
interventions proposed and introduces the methods developed to assess safety. For the traffic engineering interventions,positive
safety results were found in terms of reductions in the number of potentially hazardous interactions involving forklifts. Similarly,for
the vehicle interventions,the research found that forklift drivers and managers considered the newly developed and installed
Intelligent Transport Systems to be broadly acceptable in operational conditions,and the systems’ intended safety benefits were well
understood. The results are discussed and conclusions are drawn regarding human factors aspects of forklift safety.
r 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This paper details a forklift safety demonstration project undertaken at two manufacturing sites in Victoria,Australia. Thepurpose of the work was both to help improve safety at the two sites,and, more broadly, to develop,help implement and evaluate aseries of human-centred design interventions involving vehicles and pedestrian workers. The ‘before’ and ‘after’ case study presentedhere summarises the background to the research and introduces the test sites. Thereafter,it describes the overall nature of the safetyinterventions proposed and introduces the methods developed to assess safety. For the traffic engineering interventions,positivesafety results were found in terms of reductions in the number of potentially hazardous interactions involving forklifts. Similarly,forthe vehicle interventions,the research found that forklift drivers and managers considered the newly developed and installedIntelligent Transport Systems to be broadly acceptable in operational conditions,and the systems’ intended safety benefits were wellunderstood. The results are discussed and conclusions are drawn regarding human factors aspects of forklift safety.r 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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