UK companies have been set robust procedural targets by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. However, it’s also vital to review the safety products needed in industrial buildings to meet your legal, ethical and business obligations.
Protecting staff and visitors in manufacturing, processing, logistics, engineering or chemical workplaces is an everyday priority. You no doubt have strict procedural controls and measures in place, to reduce risks while also protecting your productivity.
What should not be underestimated, is the benefits of regularly assessing fundamental safety products employed throughout industrial buildings.
This is not just about personal protective equipment and the obvious items such as machinery guards. It involves often low-cost supplies that can play an important role in cross-site safety standards.
Here, we explore just some of the basic safety products all industrial companies need to consider carefully.
1. PolyWRAP column protectors
The pressure is on to work fast and avoid downtime in industrial settings. This increases the risk of vehicles like forklift trucks accidentally hitting central structures and causing damage, distraction and expense you can ill afford.
Having a ready source of PolyWRAP column protectors mitigates against these ‘knock-in’ problems. Your steel and concrete pillars will survive inadvertent collisions more easily. So will your machinery, and its operators!
We are the best place to buy column guards if you need to specify a particular size, as Safe Industrial can create bespoke polyWRAP column protectors. All variations stack easily to build a robust protective surface that absorbs impact.
2. HGV Straight Dock Wheel Guide
Having HGVs operating around your industrial site will always raise safety red flags. Especially if they need manoeuvring into parts of your industrial building.
One of the best ways to keep HGVs moving in and out of loading bays and parking garages, for example, is to give drivers a simple floor based guide to follow.
Our dock wheel guides direct HGV lorries through indoor spaces without crashing into any internal structures.
These galvanised wheel guides can be fixed down quickly and moved if needed. We offer two height choices, each designed to keep vehicles on track and free of wheel trim scuffs, dents and scratches.
3. Medium Duty CornerWRAP Impact Protector
Protruding structural edges are an everyday safety hazard in industrial settings. Yet, in a few simple steps, you can render many of them far less of a risk.
One of the simplest yet most effective safety measures in industrial buildings is sheathing corners and header beams. Our medium-duty cornerWRAP was designed to make light work of this safety measure, slotting easily on to corners, doorways and overhead structures.
Chevron reflective strips give it high visibility even in poor light. This provides you with an effective way to reduce dangerous impact incidents.
4. Height Restriction Clatter Bar
Giving drivers the ‘heads up’ about height restrictions in and around your industrial premises is also a fundamental but important commercial safety measure.
We provide clatter bars that can be adapted to any industrial layout where vehicles operate (internally and externally) and where a misjudged manoeuvre could lead to damage to height-restricted structures.
Our highly visible and shock absorbing clatter bars can be quickly fixed under mezzanines, doorways and other structural frames, with colours and dimensions that are bespoke to your industrial premises.
5. Drop Core Bollard
Another basic product to create a safe working environment where vehicles are in transit is demountable drop core bollards. Their design makes them hard to miss, which is perfect for limiting contact between trucks and vulnerable structures around your industrial complex.
Especially doorways within loading bays or garages.
These are a heavy-duty impact warning system, made from diamond core drill, with a cast-in steel floor socket.
Our drop core bollards can also be specified in different designs to act as clear Fire Hazard, Caution and High Warning Area indicators.
Recommended industrial safety products
These are just examples of the easy ways to safety-proof industrial sites – internally and externally – using durable and well-engineered products from Safe Industrial.
Browse our comprehensive and cost-effective range. Or, call to map out the safety risks on your site that we can solve. We can then outline bespoke measures to protect your structures, machinery, vehicles and production time – but most importantly to safeguard your people!