The importance of safe forklift operation


Published Time:

2025/07/09

Safe operation of forklifts mainly refers to three aspects: safe driving, safe operation, and safe maintenance of forklifts. From the perspective of accidents caused by forklift use, it generally involves people (drivers, loaders, pedestrians), vehicles (both vehicles), road environment, and a combination of the three factors. In general, the driver is a major cause of accidents, and those directly responsible account for more than 70%. Operation is achieved through human intervention between the vehicle and the operating environment. The control and driving devices of the vehicle constitute a human-machine control system. A person's psychology, physiology, emotions, and reactions, judgments, and processing of external environments and information directly affect driving safety. That is, in the human-machine control system, the driver exists as the central nervous system of the human-machine control system, and the driver's operating characteristics directly control the safe operation of the human-machine control system. When the driver is driving a vehicle on the road, information is obtained from the external and internal environments of the vehicle, and is transmitted through sensory organs such as vision, hearing, touch, and pressure to the central nervous system in the brain. After the driver makes a decision through thinking and judgment, it is transmitted by the nervous system to the effector (hand, foot, etc.), thus controlling the vehicle. If there is a deviation in the reaction of the effector during driving, the information stimulus is returned to the central nervous system for correction. This return is called feedback, so that the vehicle can drive according to the driver's will. In the above human-machine adjustment system, the driver exists as the central nervous system of the moving motor vehicle; therefore, the driver's will, desires, emotions, mood, fatigue level, physical condition, illness, alcohol, drugs, etc., have an important impact on the human-machine adjustment system. In other words, the driver's operating characteristics are extremely closely related to driving safety.

Safe operation of forklifts mainly refers to three aspects: safe driving, safe operation, and safe maintenance of forklifts. From the perspective of accidents caused by forklift use, it generally involves people (drivers, loaders, pedestrians), vehicles (both vehicles), road environment, and a combination of the three factors. In general, the driver is a major cause of accidents, bearing direct responsibility for more than 70% of them. Operation is achieved through human intervention between the vehicle and the operating environment, and the control and driving devices constitute the human-machine control system. A person's psychology, physiology, emotions, and reactions, judgments, and processing of external environments and information directly affect driving safety. That is, in the human-machine control system, the driver exists as the central nervous system, and the driver's operating characteristics directly control the safe operation of the human-machine control system.
When a driver is driving a vehicle on the road, information is obtained from the external and internal environments of the vehicle. This information is transmitted through sensory organs such as vision, hearing, touch, and pressure to the central nervous system in the brain. After the driver thinks and judges and makes a decision, the nervous system transmits it to the effector (hand, foot, etc.), thus controlling the vehicle. If there is a deviation in the response of the effector during driving, the information stimulus is returned to the central nervous system for correction. This return is called feedback, allowing the vehicle to drive according to the driver's will.
In the above human-machine adjustment system, the driver exists as the central nervous system of the moving motor vehicle; therefore, the driver's will, desires, emotions, mood, fatigue level, physical condition, illness, alcohol, drugs, etc., have an important impact on the human-machine adjustment system. In other words, the driver's operating characteristics are extremely closely related to driving safety.

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