In the 2005 family comedy “Yours, Mine & Ours,” — a remake of the 1968 original — a couple played by Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo get together, and between the two of them, they have 18 children. In one scene, while out shopping for home renovation supplies, the couple’s young twin boys stumble upon a forklift. The entire scene is every parent’s worst nightmare: the boys, who can’t figure out how to stop the forklift, wreak havoc on the hardware store. Luckily, no one was hurt. And, luckily, it was just a Hollywood fabrication.
In the warehouse setting, and not in movie set hardware stores, many safety measures are in place to ensure the protection of others, as well as forklift drivers. Mark Koffarnus, major accounts manager at Greenville, N.C.-based Yale Materials Handling Corp., considers safety to be a culture, not an outcome.