Mistakes will always happen from time to time, wherever people may work. When it comes to operating fork lift trucks, human error is the most common cause of accidents at work. Lack of knowledge or poor concentration on the part of drivers cause operating errors, resulting in trucks tipping over and causing very serious injuries, damage to loading equipment and operating equipment, and last but not least, massive disruptions to the logistics workflow. A unique electronic driver assistance system from Linde Material Handling (MH), the Linde Safety Pilot, is now on hand to offer support with these issues. The Linde Safety Pilot system is due to be introduced at the "World of Material Handling" customer event at the Mainz Exhibition Centre in May. Via a display on the driver's workstation, the Linde Safety Pilot helps the forklift truck driver to operate the work equipment safely and helps to avoid dangerous situations, minimising the risk of an accident and improving occupational safety.

Via a display on the driver's workstation, the Linde Safety Pilot helps the forklift truck driver to operate the work equipment safely and helps to avoid dangerous situations, minimising the risk of an accident and improving occupational safety.

In line with the relevant accident prevention regulations set out by the employers' liability insurance associations, industrial trucks must be operated in a manner that ensures that stability is maintained. For this reason, the forklift truck driver is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the load lifted on the fork arms does not exceed the approved load capacity, that the load centre of gravity is taken into account and that the maximum lift height is not exceeded. However, drivers are often faced with the challenge of balancing three unknown factors, whose values can only be roughly estimated. However, without a detailed knowledge of the information specified by each manufacturer in the load capacity diagram, drivers may expose themselves and others to serious danger. The Linde Safety Pilot offers excellent support in this situation because in future drivers can simply look at the display mounted at eye level to find the answer to these three questions. The driver is not only shown the load centre of gravity; the load weight currently placed on the fork arms, the current lift height, the tilt angle of the fork arms and the maximum lift height up to which the load may be raised are also displayed. To help drivers quickly identify all of these values, the display features a clear design, it shows information in image format and the volume of numbers shown is kept to a minimum.