Lamp posts are crucial where vehicles manoeuvre and pedestrians walk. However, those posts are prone to damage, particularly in car parks. What’s the best way to protect lighting poles and the vehicles themselves?
The British have been illuminating their roads and public parks using ‘electric candles’ since the late 19th century. Though before that street lighting was gas-fuelled and required a nightly lamplighter!
Lamp posts now come in many designs, from eye-catching contemporary street lights on new walkways and roads, to traditional-shaped lamp standards around heritage sites. Within commercial premises, light poles tend to be more functional and basic.
What all these structures have in common, is the potential to come in to contact with vehicles.
Reversing into lamp posts and scraping across or clipping are common perils. However, it is particularly prevalent in car parks. If you are responsible for sorting out the damage to your site lighting, this can become a costly nuisance.
What you need is post protection products for car parks or areas of considerable traffic.
Building metal barriers
One way to protect lighting structures is to commission metal post protectors – such as loops or cradles to fit around the base.
If a vehicle hits it, the metal framework shields the lamp post or other street furniture structure from damage. There are substantial downsides to this option.
One, these metal protectors for lighting structures take up space and can become a driving hazard as they can’t necessarily be seen from the vehicle. Secondly, the vehicle that hits them will sustain damage.
If this is a commercial premise you don’t want your fleet or visiting cars to come off badly from a momentary lapse in concentration. Nor do you want irate public drivers complaining about the damage to their vehicle wheels from metal lamp post protectors.
Using ground-embedded steel protectors around lamp posts, trees and street furniture can easily become a tripping hazard for pedestrians too.
Protect lamp posts and vehicles intelligently
It is far wiser to choose lamp post protection options that minimise vehicle damage and space intrusion. A system that enables you to optimise every inch in busy car parks and that also manages the risks involved with lots of vehicles moving in and out of spaces.
Where there is a considerable risk of cars or lorries reversing or sideswiping your lighting structures, then you also need the assurance of highly visible protectors – at sight level. This can actively reduce the number of accidents.
It may sound a tall order, to find post protection systems that minimise vehicle damage, maximise space and stand out enough to decrease contact. However, Safe Industrial lamp post protection products have got all of this ‘well wrapped up’.
Best way to protect light poles
Our Lamp Post WRAP Protector is crafted from quality foam core encased in a tough polyethene clamshell. They are moulded to British manufacturing standards here in the UK, which also means that can be supplied swiftly.
Easy to install, they hug lighting posts and other structures perfectly. You simply specify the correct size of protector, then adjust the foam core sections before slotting the robust shield into place. Once in position, there is no need to cast it in or bolt down your post shielding system. You secure it using the instructions that come with the Safe Industrial impact protection product.
They are suitable for lamp posts and other structures with diameters of 50mm to 219mm.
What happens if a vehicle collides with a lamp post guarded by a WRAP protector? The expertly designed traffic management product absorbs the impact, reducing damage to the vehicle and post. The protector can then be easily and quickly replaced, at low cost.
Something that cannot be said about lamp posts or vehicles!
The optics of post protection
When it comes to specifying the best system to protect lamp posts and other structures from vehicle damage, looks do matter!
You want your traffic management products to be hard to miss, visually. This reduces the chance of drivers clipping, hitting or scuffing the lighting structure. However, you do not necessarily want something gawdy in appearance either.
Safe Industrial lamp post WRAP protectors come in five colours, each with Hi-Vis silver diamond grade reflector bands to increase visual impact. Many clients opt for yellow protective shields so they stand out even more, though you can match these products to your lamp post colours, for example.
Well priced safety protection products
Having buoyant but robust lamp post protection systems in place can save a lot of costly headaches. Yet the unit price of our all-weather protectors is highly competitive.
To discuss your needs in more details or get a quote for lamp post shields, get in touch with the expert team at Safe Industrial.