How to improve lift truck safety 

Safety is key when it comes to operating heavy vehicles like forklifts, reach stackers and other lift trucks. To protect drivers, other employees and visitors to your yard, Konecranes offer a long line of safety upgrades to your lift truck fleet. Read all about what you can do to offer a safe and secure workplace.


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Daily inspections with CheckApp keeps your forklifts safe

It’s important to inspect forklifts every day to keep operations safe. CheckApp is Konecranes’ smartphone app that makes daily inspections quick and easy. All inspection data goes to the customer portal yourKONECRANES.com, where you get an overview of every forklift in your fleet. Moving the inspection procedure into an app on a smartphone takes quality to the next level. Not only is data collection more precise and accurate, people can take action on it immediately. This is a major safety improvement.

CheckApp improves safety, increases uptime and extends the lifetime of your forklifts.

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Use Konecranes genuine parts

When you purchase a Konecranes forklift, you get access to the full range of genuine Konecranes OEM spare parts. Using genuine parts is a good way to secure safety, maintain high performance and reduce your overall costs, all while extending the life of your machine.

Take good care of your business and your forklifts - with genuine spare parts from Konecranes.

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Upgrade your forklift safety with Lifetime Advantage

Workplace safety is a top priority. It is important to protect employees working in industrial environments that contain potential hazards. When risks are minimized, drivers can operate with more confidence, and confident drivers tend to be more productive.

 To protect the health and well-being of your forklift drivers and their colleagues at work, Konecranes offers Lifetime Advantage - a number of safety upgrades to meet the needs of your forklift operations. 

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ISO certified lift truck manufacturer keeps your data secure

Keep your Smart Connected Lift Trucks secure. Cooperate with a certified lift truck manufacturer that knows how to safeguard all your business critical data, to minimize the risks of being connected. Konecranes has received the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, ensuring compliance with legal and customer requirements, to keep your information secure at all times.

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Overhead safety attachments for lift trucks in demanding environments

Lift trucks operate in all kinds of demanding environments, such as those found in the steel and aluminum industries. Industrial areas are full of potential risks that need to be taken into account, like extreme heat or falling objects. The lift truck cabin is designed for safety, but it can also be upgraded with a range of cabin protection attachments to improve the safety of drivers and operators even more. These attachments, which could be described as overhead guards, are compliant with ISO 6055.

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The Safety Cage for container handlers that saves lives

The industrial environments where container handlers and other lift trucks operate need special safety precautions to protect the health of the employees. There are risks connected with the handling of heavy loads like containers, risks that can be increased by conditions like stress and bad weather conditions. Trained operators who follow all safety routines minimize the risks, but accidents can still happen. A container can be dropped, and in the worst case it hits the container handler. A safety cage, or overhead guard, protects the operator from falling objects and can literally contribute to saving lives.

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