According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), every year, there are over 5000 accidents involving transport in the workplace.Transmon has developed a range of iTEch Speed systems to help reduce the likelihood of some of these incidents, by reducing forklift travel speeds.

“It is possible that many accidents could have been prevented simply by reducing travel speed,” says Bob Warner, Sales Manager for Transmon. “By limiting the travel speed of a forklift with a Transmon system, site safety can be enhanced and the chance of a collision can be reduced.”

Over the last 20 years, Transmon has developed a range of speed systems to help prevent dangerous speeds in the workplace and prevent such accidents from happening.

The Transmon iTEch Over Speed monitors the speed of the vehicle and notifies the driver when the pre-set speed has been reached, by activating a beacon and a buzzer fitted inside the cab.  As soon as the operator decreases the travel speed to the required limit, the buzzer and beacon will deactivate.

A more advanced and secure way of ensuring that speed regulations are adhered to is with the Transmon iTEch Speed 1 or Speed 6 Systems, designed for cable-operated and fly-by-wire throttles respectively. These systems detect the truck’s travel speed, and when a pre-set threshold is reached, a throttle restriction is applied in order to limit the truck’s speed.

For larger sites that need more flexibility with truck speeds in different areas, the Transmon iTEch Zone System allows operations to set and enforce safe speeds in specific ‘zones’, whilst maintaining maximum productivity, with higher travel speeds where appropriate.

For operations where speed limitation is important but not the only requirement, businesses can select Transmon’s latest product, the iTEch Control system. It combines the features of the Speed1/6 with transmission protection, by preventing hot-shifting while moving, which can cause severe damage to transmissions, and tyre wear reduction, by preventing wheel spin when changing direction.