05/28/2026
Every serious forklift incident shuts something down.
The investigation. The documentation. The insurance call. The facility review. The conversation with the employee's family.
And before any of that, the production stoppage.
Forklift safety gets routed to the EHS team because that's where it belongs organizationally. But the consequences of a serious incident are felt across operations, HR, finance, and legal simultaneously.
That's why the best safety investments aren't justified on compliance grounds alone. They're justified on operational continuity grounds, the same calculus that drives every other capital decision in a facility.
No proximity detection system costs more than one serious incident. It's not even close.
The question worth asking isn't "can we afford this?" It's "what are we actually risking when we don't have it?"