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Cal/OSHA & Federal OSHA Standard

Traffic & Pedestrian Safety Assessments

Forklifts and foot traffic sharing the same floor is one of the most common sources of serious injury in industrial facilities. Most of the risk sits at a handful of predictable points. We walk your facility, find them, and hand you a plan to fix them.

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~20%

of forklift accidents involve a struck pedestrian.

35,000+

serious forklift-related injuries every year in U.S. workplaces.

8 CCR §3650

governs powered industrial truck operation in California.

How It Works

A walk of your facility, ranked by risk — not a desk review.

Every conflict point we find gets ranked the same way: severity if something goes wrong, weighed against how likely and how often it happens. That's the triangle underneath every hazard assessment — severity, likelihood, and exposure together, not just "does this look dangerous." It's what turns a list of blind corners into a prioritized plan instead of an undifferentiated wall of findings.

What We Look For

The categories every walk covers.

Corners & Sightlines

  • Blind corners at racks, walls, doorways
  • Mirror placement and condition

Layout & Obstacles

  • Storage encroaching on marked aisles
  • Pinch points and narrowed aisles

Vehicle Traffic

  • Forklifts, order pickers, pallet jacks
  • Delivery and freight vehicles

Pedestrian Traffic

  • Foot traffic patterns and volume
  • Visitor and non-operations staff routes

Physical Controls

  • Barriers, bollards, guardrails
  • Whether they're placed where risk actually is

Signage & Markings

  • Painted walkways and speed zones
  • Condition, visibility, and whether they're followed

Every Recommendation Follows the Hierarchy of Controls

We don't lead with signage. We lead with removing the conflict entirely — and work down from there only when the top of the hierarchy isn't feasible.

Most Effective

Physical separation

Barriers, bollards, and dedicated corridors that keep vehicles and pedestrians out of the same space entirely — the hazard is designed out, not managed around.

Layout Controls

Redesigned routes

Widened aisles, relocated storage, mirrors at blind intersections — eliminating the conflict, not just flagging it.

Administrative

Traffic rules

Speed limits, right-of-way, horn-at-corners — effective, but dependent on compliance every time, by everyone, on every pass.

Last Resort

Signage & awareness

Striping and warning signs — necessary where nothing higher on the hierarchy is feasible, but the least reliable control on its own.

See these conflict points in your own facility.

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Why This Gets Overlooked

Layouts drift. Risk builds the same way — quietly.

01

Layouts drift without a decision

New racking, a temporary staging area that becomes permanent — nothing feels like a hazard call, but together they create conflict points nobody approved.

02

Training doesn't fix a bad layout

A well-trained operator still can't see through a blind corner. Layout hazards need layout solutions, not more coaching.

03

Near misses go unreported

A pedestrian stepping back at the last second gets treated as normal, not as data — until a walk-through surfaces the pattern.

Common Questions

What facility managers ask before scheduling.

How is this different from forklift operator training?

Training addresses how people drive. This addresses the layout they're driving through — a well-trained operator still can't see through a blind corner.

What triggers the need for an assessment?

A near miss, a recent layout change, new equipment, growing pedestrian traffic, or never having had one done.

Does this satisfy a specific Cal/OSHA requirement?

It supports several overlapping obligations — powered industrial truck rules under 8 CCR §3650, aisle requirements, and your IIPP's hazard identification duty — rather than checking one box.

How long does a facility walk take?

Most single-site assessments are one visit, timed to your highest-traffic shift.

What's in the final report?

Documented conflict points with photos, a risk ranking, and recommended controls — layout and separation first, signage where those aren't feasible.

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On-site assessments for industrial facilities across LA, Orange, San Diego, and Riverside Counties — as a standalone project or part of Compliance-as-a-Service.

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