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Speed limiting devices that can sense load weight, road conditions, and other variables and compensate for them could add to forklift safety. Speed limiting devices, however, will never fully satisfy the OSHA speed/braking performance requirement. Speed limiting devices stop the operator from exceeding a certain designated rate of speed. Speed limiting devices do not guarantee that the allowable speed is safe for travel conditions.

OSHA 1910.178(n)(8): "Under all travel conditions the truck shall be operated at a speed that will permit it to be brought to a stop in a safe manner."

OSHA compliance requires a COMPETENT OPERATOR that is alert, knowledgeable of his/her equipment and its capabilities, knowledgeable of the environment and the driving conditions, and knowledgeable of forklift and load dynamics.

A COMPETENT OPERATOR does not need a speed limiting device.
  • Posted 6 Jan 2007 08:37
  • By joseph_h
  • joined 19 Mar'06 - 253 messages
  • Michigan, United States

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