Industrial near-miss prevention technology detects close calls between vehicles and people as they develop and intervenes before they become contacts. The main types are cameras that recognise people, wearable or vehicle-mounted tags that measure distance, zone controls that slow compatible forklifts in defined areas, and fixed sensors that switch warning lights at intersections and doors. Most also log each event, so a site can see where close calls recur and change layout, rules or training there. None of these removes risk on its own; they reduce it when combined with separation, speed limits and supervision.
The full guide is forklift safety systems: a complete technology guide. Choosing between the layers starts with where near misses happen. Fixed infrastructure suits a small number of known hot spots such as dock doors and cross aisles, truck-mounted detection suits exposure spread across the floor, and zone slowdown suits areas where people and trucks must share space.
Measure false alerts during a pilot, since a system operators learn to ignore prevents nothing. The hierarchy of controls explains why technology sits below elimination and physical separation.