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travelling through the facility

My situation involves the movement of goods from the warehouse through public areas to various outlets actross the facility. To get from the warehouse to the outlet, the operator needs to travel through a double door that opens towards the operator. This usually involves the use of a powered pallet jack.

Does anyone have a procedure, policy, or recomendation that would describe a safe way to travel through the doors?
  • Posted 21 Feb 2014 07:29
  • By brad_r
  • joined 21 Feb'14 - 1 message
  • New Jersey, United States
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there are a couple things that can be done to give warning that a machine is fixing to come through the doors

- install some type of motion alarm on the unit
- require the operator to blow horn when going through doors
- have floors marked as a caution area on both sides of the door labeled for operator to sound horn when going through that area
- in addition to the motion alarm a flashing beacon could be installed on the machine for visual warning

if you wanted to get really hi tech you could put sensors on the doors with flashing lights and a signal generator on the machine so when it got near the doors it would turn the flashing lights on and even sound an alarm.

there are all sorts of ways to give warning when a lift is coming through opening doors, it just depends on how much money you want to spend doing it :o)
  • Posted 21 Feb 2014 15:21
  • By swoop223
  • joined 23 Mar'12 - 3,691 messages
  • North Carolina, United States
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