Fitted to any make, new or existing
Forklift Safety Accessories and Speed Limiting
Warning lights, reversing alarms, seat switches, site speed limits, operator access control and pre-use checks wired to the ignition. Fitted by our own engineers to new trucks and to the ones you already run, whatever the make.
- Since 1982
- trading in materials handling
- 8 depots
- our own engineers and transport
- Any make
- new trucks and the ones you run
Lights and alarms
Warning lights, beacons and reversing alarms
Most accidents between trucks and people happen where one cannot see the other: at the end of an aisle, at a doorway, or behind a truck that is reversing. Lights and alarms warn the person on foot before the truck arrives.
A blue spot light projects a bright spot onto the floor ahead of or behind the truck, so someone at a blind corner sees it coming. Red zone lights draw a line on the floor along the sides of the truck, marking the area to keep out of while it turns or lifts. Beacons flash on the overhead guard so the truck is seen across a busy floor or yard.
Reversing alarms cover the moment the operator's view is worst. Directional alarms are heard close to the truck rather than across the whole building.
- Blue spot lights, front, rear or both
- Red zone side lights
- Amber and strobe beacons
- Reversing and travel alarms
They are not only for counterbalance forklifts. We fit them to reach trucks, powered pallet trucks, stackers, tow tractors and access platforms as well. Our guide to forklift safety lights explains each type.
In the cab
Seat switches, seat belt interlocks and mirrors
Seat switches
A switch in the seat tells the truck someone is sitting in it. With nobody in the seat the truck will not drive, so it cannot creep away from an operator who has stepped off.
- Operator presence on sit-on trucks
- Replacement switches for worn seats
Seat belt interlocks
The truck will not drive until the seat belt is fastened. It turns a rule that is easy to skip into one that is not.
- Seat belt and seat switch together
- Sit-on trucks of any make
Mirrors
Rear-view and wide-angle mirrors where the operator's view is blocked. Where a mirror is not enough, reversing cameras and pedestrian detection are covered on our telematics page.
- Rear-view and wide-angle mirrors
- Replacements from our parts stock
Speed limits
Limiting trucks to your site's speed limit
If your site has a speed limit, we set your trucks to it, so the truck keeps the limit rather than the operator's memory.
One limit across the site. Our engineers set the truck's top speed to the limit you specify. Depending on the truck, that is a setting in its controller or a limiter we fit.
Different limits in different places. Zone-based limiting slows the truck automatically in the areas you choose, such as indoors, at doorways, at busy junctions and on routes shared with pedestrians, and lets it run at normal speed elsewhere. This works through forklift telematics.
The limits are best set from your traffic management plan, so the speed on the truck matches the signs on the walls.
Access control
Only operators you have authorised can start the truck
The key is replaced by a reader in the dashboard: an RFID badge reader, a PIN pad or a fingerprint scanner. The truck starts only for operators you have authorised, and only on the machine types you have authorised them for.
That ends shared keys left in the ignition. When someone leaves, or their authorisation lapses, they come off the list and the truck stops starting for them.
A reader can be fitted on its own. Linked to telematics, every start, impact and check is also logged against the operator, across the whole fleet.
Pre-use checks
A pre-use checklist wired to the ignition
The daily check moves from a paper sheet to the truck's display, and the truck stays locked until the check has been passed. Our pre-use checklist guide covers what the questions should include.
- The operator signs in
With their badge, PIN or fingerprint, so the check is recorded against the right person.
- The checklist appears
The questions are set for that machine type: forks, chains, tyres, lights, horn, brakes, steering and anything else your site checks.
- A pass unlocks the truck
Only when every question has been answered will the truck drive and lift.
- A fail keeps it parked
A failed safety-critical answer keeps the truck locked and flags it to a supervisor, so a fault is dealt with rather than driven on.
- Sign-in
- Badge, PIN or fingerprint
- Records
- Every check, by truck and operator
- Fitted to
- New and existing trucks
Fitting
Fitted to new trucks and the ones you already run
Any make, on your site
Our own engineers fit them at your site from eight depots, on trucks we did not supply as well as our own.
New trucks
Specify lights, alarms, interlocks and access control with a new truck and it is fitted before it reaches you.
Fleet-wide records
For data across the whole fleet, the same sign-in, checks and limits connect to forklift telematics.
Talk to us
Tell us what your site needs
Tell us which trucks you run and the problem you are trying to solve: pedestrians, speed, unauthorised use or missed checks. We will come and look, and recommend what is worth fitting.
Forklift Safety Accessories: common questions
Eight depots across the UK
Our own engineers, out of our own depots - wherever you are, service comes from us.
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