Lamerholm prevents damage at Geo Adams

The health and safety department at Geo Adams has virtually eliminated damage caused by careless driving with the Shockwatch Impactmanager forklift monitoring and control system from Lamerholm.

Shockwatch Impactmanager is a compact unit that can be easily mounted in the vehicle cab.

It detects impacts and records event details such as date, time and driver ID.

'We have installed Shockwatch Impactmanager on seven of the forklift trucks at our Ruskington site,' said Paul Maslen, health and safety site co-ordinator at Tulip Foods, who acquired Geo Adams in October 2007.

'We were experiencing a fair amount of damage due to inattentive driving and although we had no driver injuries, some of the collisions resulted in a disruption to our work patterns, which was just not acceptable.' The fleet of forklifts run by Geo Adams includes two reach trucks that move in and out of the cold storage area, two Nissan electric vehicles that are used for both internal and external duties, flexitrucks for moving the packaged food crates or boxes within the dry storage area and a counterbalance truck for outside yard work.

'As well as providing timely impact information, use of the Shockwatch Impactmanager increases operator accountability and therefore improves driver behaviour,' added Maslen.

Impact monitoring capability comprises a fully adjustable 360deg impact sensor.

Once a collision is detected, the time, date and driver ID are recorded and stored in the memory.

In addition to monitoring and recording, the Shockwatch Impactmanager can be programmed to immobilise the truck once an impact has occurred.

There is also an option for activating a siren or truck horn either continuously or for a specified period of time.

This is a particularly useful safety feature to alert other personnel to check for injury.

The truck can also be completely disabled.

The Shockwatch Impactmanager Windows NT, 2000 and XP software is at the heart of the system allowing managers to set parameters and analyse the resulting data, the power of which allows better decision making when it comes to reducing damage and injury costs.

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