Protect pedestrians from forklifts by separating them where you can, controlling speed and visibility where they must meet, and adding detection where separation fails. Separation means dedicated walkways, barriers or guardrails, marked crossings and pedestrian-free zones. Where people and trucks share space, set and enforce speed limits, require horns at cross aisles, improve lighting and use mirrors or warning lights at blind corners. Detection systems then warn operators, and on compatible forklifts slow the truck, when a person comes close. Train both operators and people on foot, and review near misses to see which controls are holding.
The full guide is warehouse pedestrian safety around forklifts. OSHA 1910.178 requires operators to slow down and sound the horn at cross aisles and wherever vision is obstructed, and 1910.176 requires safe clearances and marked permanent aisles, but neither requires detection technology.
Physical separation sits above warning devices and detection in the hierarchy of controls, so redesign traffic flows before buying hardware. A warehouse forklift traffic management plan maps where trucks and people cross and which control fits each point.