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If you've started searching for forklift safety solutions, there's a good chance you've already landed on a page selling an on-forklift device. Impact sensors, speed limiters, proximity beepers, seatbelt interlocks, dashcams mounted above the operator's head. These tools do real work. But if you're evaluating them as your main safety investment, it's worth knowing what they're designed to catch, what they miss, and where a different category of technology fits alongside them.

Our founder and CEO Tane van der Boon recently joined Dave on the Keep On Moving podcast (part of the NZ Trucking Media family) for what turned out to be a pretty wide-ranging conversation. They started with how inviol works and ended up deep in the philosophical weeds of AI, automation, and what the future of work actually looks like. If you work in logistics, warehousing, or transport (or anywhere people and machines share space, really), it's worth a listen. Dave asks the

There's a statistic that comes up again and again in workplace safety research: the vast majority of workplace injuries are preventable. Not theoretically preventable. Not "if we lived in a perfect world" preventable. Preventable with better visibility, better training, and better systems for catching risk before it turns into harm. The numbers support this consistently. The US National Safety Council classifies workplace deaths as "preventable" when they result from identifi

About The Warehouse Group The Warehouse Group is one of New Zealand's largest and most iconic retailers. Founded by Sir Stephen Tindall in 1982, it operates three beloved Kiwi brands: The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, and Noel Leeming. The Group serves customers nationwide across hundreds of stores, supported by a large and complex distribution network. Its North Island Distribution Centre is one of the biggest DCs in New Zealand, handling everything from general merchand

If you work in logistics, you already know the score. Forklifts moving at pace, trucks reversing into loading bays, pedestrians crossing zones they shouldn't, fatigue creeping in on a long shift. The risk is everywhere, and it's constant. Health and safety in logistics isn't just a compliance box to tick, it's genuinely hard work. And despite the best intentions, traditional approaches often fall short when the environment is this fast-moving. That's starting to change, thank

How NZ Post shifted their safety culture with inviol's AI safety monitoring and coaching tool.

Workplace safety is in the middle of its biggest technological shift in decades. Not a gradual evolution. A genuine step change in how organisations detect risk, coach their teams, and prove compliance. If you're an EHS leader, you're already feeling this. The tools are changing. The expectations are changing. And the organisations that move early are pulling ahead in ways that will be difficult to catch up to. Here are five AI-driven trends that are reshaping workplace safet

Everyone gets tired at work sometimes. That's normal. But there's a point where ordinary tiredness crosses a line and becomes something more serious: a genuine safety hazard that puts people at risk of injury. The tricky part? Most of us are terrible at recognising when we've crossed that line. And in a warehouse, distribution centre, or manufacturing environment where forklifts, heavy machinery, and fast-moving operations are part of the day, the consequences of getting it w

If you've ever done a safety walk, you know the routine. Grab the clipboard (or the tablet, if you've gone digital). Walk the floor. Check the usual spots. Note what you see. File the report. Repeat next week. Safety walks are one of the most established practices in workplace health and safety. They're recommended by OSHA , required under New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) as part of proactive risk management, and endorsed by Safe Work Australia as a core e

Here's a number that should keep every operations manager up at night (no pun intended): OSHA data shows that accident and injury rates are up to 30% higher during night shifts compared with day shifts. Evening shifts aren't much better, with an 18% increase in risk. If you run a warehouse, distribution centre, or manufacturing operation that includes night shifts, this isn't a statistic you can afford to shrug off. The question isn't whether your night shift carries more ri

If your workforce changes significantly at certain times of year — harvest season, a kiwifruit or apple pack run, a peak logistics period — you already know that managing those transitions is complicated. Hiring surges, training ramp-ups, unfamiliar faces in high-risk areas, and the relentless pressure to maintain throughput while everything is moving faster than usual. What does not always get enough airtime is what all of that means for safety. The short version is this: se

When we talk to safety leaders about computer vision AI, the conversations are almost always positive. They understand the technology, they see the value, and they're keen to explore it. But when it comes to rolling the technology out to the wider workforce, a different set of conversations begins. Workers have questions. Concerns. And sometimes, deeply held beliefs about what AI cameras do that simply aren't accurate. These misconceptions aren't unreasonable. Headlines about

This blog provides general information about workplace safety legislation in New Zealand and Australia. It is not legal advice. For guidance specific to your situation, consult a qualified legal professional. Worker participation in safety is one of those topics that tends to get filed under "best practice" — something organisations aspire to when they have the time and bandwidth, rather than something they are legally required to do right now. That is a misunderstanding wort

If there is one piece of data that should make every operations manager sit up, it is this: according to Travelers Insurance's analysis of more than 2.6 million workers' compensation claims , more than a third of all workplace injuries occur in an employee's first year on the job. And the risk is highest not in month twelve — it is in the first few weeks. For warehouses, logistics operations, and manufacturing facilities — environments where forklifts, heavy equipment, and ve

The shift to electric forklifts is accelerating. The global electric forklift market was valued at over USD 50 billion in 2024 and is projected to more than double by 2030, according to industry analysis . Over 68% of European warehouses now operate fully electric forklift fleets, and lithium-ion models accounted for 63% of new forklift launches globally in 2024–2025. The reasons are straightforward — zero emissions, lower operating costs, reduced maintenance, and quieter ope

The hazards that define the log yard A log yard or timber processing yard is a heavy industrial environment where the materials being handled are among the heaviest and most unpredictable in any industry. Logs are irregularly shaped, can weigh several tonnes each, and behave differently depending on species, moisture content, and how they're stacked. Heavy mobile plant in close quarters Log yards rely on heavy equipment: grapple loaders, skidders, excavators with log-handling

There's a lot of content out there about what computer vision AI can do for workplace safety. Less gets written about what it actually feels like to use it. What does a Monday morning look like when your site is running real-time AI monitoring? What happens when an alert fires at 2am? How does the data flow from camera to dashboard to coaching conversation? If you're considering computer vision AI for your operation and want to understand how it fits into daily workflows (n

This blog provides general information about how workplace safety data and CCTV footage may be relevant in investigations and audits. It is not legal advice. For guidance specific to your situation, consult a qualified legal professional. When a WorkSafe inspector arrives following a serious incident, or when your ISO 45001 certification audit is scheduled for next quarter, there is one question that cuts through everything else: what does your evidence actually show? Not wha

There is a pattern that appears in almost every serious workplace incident investigation. When something goes wrong, the initial response is to find the person responsible — the driver who was speeding, the worker who bypassed the guard, the supervisor who missed the hazard. Someone gets retrained, disciplined, or moved on. A corrective action gets filed. And the organisation moves forward, satisfied that the problem has been addressed. Except, often, it has not. The same inc

If you are running a single forklift on a quiet site, safety management is relatively straightforward. One operator, one vehicle, a manageable set of risks. But the moment your operation scales to five, ten, or fifty vehicles across one or more sites, the picture changes completely. Risk does not scale linearly — it multiplies. More vehicles mean more interactions, more near misses, more variability across operators and shifts, and more opportunities for the safety standards