Archive for the Forklift Parts Category
Jul17
Forklifts are operating in every major retailer and distribution center in America. Where there are forklifts there are products, standing obstacles such as racking, and pedestrians. What does this mean for you? It means liability and obligation of prevention. One of the quickest and most usable ways to prevent forklift accidents are Forklift Camera Systems. Lift Truck Supply’s online parts store offers several different types of easily-installed camera systems.
- Reduce Forklift Damage – Added visibility means fewer dents, scratches, or fork damage due to ill spaced turns, tail swings, reversals, and drop-offs.
- Reduce Product Damage – Minimize costly product loss with full views around your lift. By utilizing side, back up, and fork positioned cameras your operator will be more able to prevent bumps and drops of product pallets or racking falls. You will also see fewer chargebacks from your vendor due to less product damage during loading.
- Extended Protection – Extends the life of your lift and workforce by reducing accidents that could be catastrophic to personnel and the lift.
- Fork Views – Adds ability to view fork to pallet placement.
- Maximizes Work Hours – Speeds up processing and fulfillment times due to workers higher level of accuracy and reduction of product loss.
- Ergonomics – Reduce worker strain and repetitive stress by virtually eliminating the need to twist and bend the neck/body to check major blind spots.
- Pedestrians – Help prevent pedestrian injury by extending your operators visibility.
- Monitoring – Recordable Camera Systems will help monitor operator speeds and allow you to play back video of an accident. Some systems also come with alert monitors.
- Insurance Purposes – Systems may help lower insurance premiums. *see your insurance provider to find out if they offer this concession.
- OSHA – Helps to bring Lift into OSHA compliance. While OSHA does not have a specific rule maintaining that a forklift must be equipt with a camera system it does have a General Duty Clause (see below) that says an employer can avoid violating this clause by installing visual safety devices. If not you could be subject to a $12,934 OSHA penalty per violation. That is a steep penalty to pay for not thinking ahead.
OSHA Act, 29 U.S.C. § 654 (a)(1), also known as the General Duty Clause, to furnish employment and a place of employment, free from recognized hazards that are causing or a likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees, where employees are exposed to hazards, including but not limited to, struck by, caught-in-between and crushing by the forklift. B56.1-2009 shows that industry recognizes this hazard and that equipping trucks with sound-producing and visual devices are feasible means to abate this hazard. An employer whose workplace presents this hazard and has not taken feasible steps to mitigate this hazard may be in violation of the General Duty Clause.
Your worker and customer safety is a critical part of your forklift program. By adding Forklift Camera Systems to your fleet, you are helping your company avoid becoming an accident statistic or OSHA violator. Upgrade your visual forklift safety today by visiting our online parts store.
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Apr11
Forklifts are under a constant barrage of contaminants from its daily work environment. Dust, dirt, and debris have a high chance of making its way into your air, fuel, hydraulic fluid, and oil components which will ultimately destroy your machine. The only proven method to keep this from happening is to install forklift filters. Filters have been around for thousands of years, one of the first known filters was made around 500 BC. Hippocrates invented the practice of sieving water and created the first bag filter, called the Hippocratic Sleeve. The main purpose of the bag was to trap sediments that caused bad tastes or odors. Early industrial age developers then repurposed Hippocrates Sleeve to keep contaminants out of delicate forklift systems. Find out about the many types of forklift filters by reading below.
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Apr04
I love a clean floor! Especially when I walk into a business or warehouse and I see a clean foundation, I know they are on top of things and have a good standard of operating. One of the great many solutions we offer at Lift Truck Supply is commercial and industrial scrubbers and scrubber parts to help you make all of your company’s visitors feel the same way I do. Once you have picked out your Advance Scrubber unit, you may have questions about where, when, and how to use all the different available pads, brushes, and cylinders.
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Feb12
OSHA accident search results show over 186 accidents involving powered industrial vehicles in 2017; 35 of those are fatalities. One way to help avoid becoming an OSHA violation or statistic is to improve your industrial fleet’s safety accessories. Lift Truck Supply offers several different options to help make you a responsible and safe fleet manager. Read below to find out about four of our best-selling options.
The Handy-Mag Tools help your warehouse operate as efficiently and safely as possible and helps eliminate distracted driver, falling objects from the vehicle, and lost supplies. The Handy-Mag Products are always available when you need them, where you need them thanks to their attached powerful 100 lbs magnet. The Handy-Mag products are mountable on forklifts, pallet trucks, scissor lifts, workstations, warehouse racking, or any metal surface!
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Jan18
No equipment owner looks forward to the day they will need to rebuild or replace their engine. You have maintained and babied your machine every step of the way for years, but the day has come that you need to make a decision. Will you replace your entire piece of equipment, or will you rebuild or replace the engine. For many the most cost effective thing to do is replace your engine.
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Jan08
Forklifts are operating in every major retailer and distribution center in America. Where there are forklifts there are pedestrians. What does this mean for you? It means liability and obligation of prevention. One of the quickest and most noticeable pedestrian warnings are forklift safety lights. Lift Truck Supply’s online parts store offers eight different types of easily-installed safety lights.
“20% of all forklift fatalities from 1980 to 1994 involved a worker stricken by a lift truck.”- The National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF)
Jan02
Planned Maintenance Servicing is a low cost easy way to extend your lift truck’s life. PMs keep you up to date on exactly what needs servicing, so you keep your equipment running optimally and reduce profit eating repair costs. You’ll also proactively prevent problems from cropping up, instead of having to rush to react to every last minute breakdown.
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Dec27
It’s raining, it’s pouring, your operator is soaking! But what can you do? OSHA standard 1917.43 (e) (1) (ii) clearly states, “Overhead guards shall not obstruct the operator’s view.” Well, there is a clear solution to your wet dilemma; Clear Caps provided by Lift Truck Supply. This is one of the most advanced forklift rain covers on the market.
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Dec12
I’m braking up with you…. as in I’m going to brake up the low down on forklift brakes. I will delve into the exciting world of drum brakes, their parts, and a general guide on how to perform a routine brake job to help keep you from braking…well…anything in front of your lift when your un-serviced brakes give out.
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Jul23