In this new age of warehouse or facility labor shortage, more and more companies are turning to automation and robotics to help fill in the gap and increase productivity as well. With e-commerce showing no signs of slowing and innovative supply chains being rewarded, you can bet that companies embracing this new dawn are showing better ROI and efficiency. One aspect of adopting robotic help for your warehouse to review is that of safety. While the overall safe environment you provide to your operations is crucial, when adding robotics or automation to the mix it requires a new set of ideas and priorities to ensure your workers and ‘bots can coexist.

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Companies spend a great deal of time and energy protecting people and assets in their warehousing operations, but one aspect of it that can be difficult is forklift load protection. Once a load is on the forklift, what can you do to reduce the chances of forklifts damaging your product?

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Food distribution warehouses face unique material handling challenges, due to both their function and regulatory compliance. Whether you’re operating a dry goods, chilled, refrigerated or frozen operation, the standards of sanitation, health compliance and storage efficiency are similar. What can you do to ensure optimized storage and material flow?

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Worker safety extends to all facets of a facility, from the forklift/pedestrian interactions to ergonomic that reduce fatigue and even the reporting software options needed to keep efficient track of incidents and near-misses. One area that sometimes is overlooked is actually that which you might want to look up and discover…..your lights. Traditional lighting generates a darkened environment that can reduce visibility, efficiency and morale.

In recent years, many smart companies turned to LED lighting to improve all of those factors and more.

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AisleAlert, our exclusive forklift-pedestrian safety system, was the first system on the market to utilize floor bursts to warn people and drivers of potential collisions. Introduced in 2010, the system is in use in hundreds of manufacturing facilities, warehouses and distribution centers to help increase awareness and safety. Now, the system has been upgraded. Here’s what to expect from AisleAlert 2.0.

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In this installment of Cisco-Eagle’s Shoptalk series, Markus explains how our AisleCop forklift safety system works to prevent dangerous pedestrian-forklift accidents in aisles, blind crossing and other dangerous areas in a facility.

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced the Top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety violations for the fiscal year 2019. This year the Top 10 only features one change in the rankings but still highlights the most critical safety hazards your workers face on a daily basis. With an average of 5,000 fatal work injuries reported each year, using this list to review your safety offerings could make a difference.

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HVLS fans are an ideal way to make warehouses and other industrial facilities more comfortable and reduce the cost of air conditioning, but they usually can’t be installed above pallet racks, which dominate the floor spaces of most warehouses.

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When forklifts transport large loads across a busy warehouse full of people, visibility is perhaps the most critical safety concern.

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Next month, Cisco-Eagle will be exhibiting at the National Safety Council Congress & Expo. We are at booth 2316, and will feature interactive demos of our AisleCop® forklift safety system, AisleAlert warning sensors, and other safety products for your operations.

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