Keeping vehicle drivers and machine operators safe requires 360degree risk assessments. These six products improve traffic safety in the workplace, from all angles.
There are increasingly diverse types of vehicles and movable machinery operating in modern logistic, storage, manufacturing and engineering premises. Especially within warehouses. This can include state-of-the-art autonomous load carriers, reachers, stackers and order pickers, and of course traditional forklifts, tow trucks and pallet jacks.
What remains constant, is the safety risks connected to off-road vehicles or heavy-duty equipment in an enclosed space.
Traffic safety in the workplace is not just about looking both ways, but also being aware of low-level and overhead hazards.
These six products keep workplace traffic safer, protecting people and inanimate objects. Even better news, they are also ways of keeping your business error-free and more productive, for very little cost.
Self-Adhesive Graphic Floor Markers
The floor is often the best place to start when mapping out ways to improve traffic safety in the workplace. Fortunately, most businesses have ample space on floors to post important messages.
It’s surprising how versatile graphic floor markers can be, and how many safety and operational priorities they ‘cover’. This is why we have 38 designs to choose from.
One of the best uses of graphic floor markers is to scatter them at critical points to make vehicle and equipment operators aware of dangerous areas. Also, they can be used to guide movement along less risky routes around your premises and to keep drivers and pedestrians segregated.
Floor Lane Marking Tape
Still looking downwards to protect your vehicles, equipment and operators, robust floor marking tape is a time-served method of managing traffic safety.
It’s a highly adaptive and versatile option too, as you can stick directional and warning tapes on floors or across any other flat, dry surface.
Our tough floor tape – in seven high-vis colours – provides strong adhesion and structural durability. So, this ground level method of managing traffic safety in the workplace doesn’t become a tripping hazard or only a short-term solution!
SoftWRAP i-Beam Protectors
Moving upwards with traffic risks in commercial settings, clashes between structural planes and machinery rarely end well.
Fortunately, contemporary designers and manufacturers of workplace traffic safety products have engineered some clever ways to protect beams and columns. This includes PolyWRAP and SoftWRAP options that absorb impact, shielding structures and lower the risk of damage to vehicles and staff.
Expandable Safety Barriers
One of the most ingenious products to support traffic safety in workplaces is high-vis barriers that can be erected, relocated and amended constantly. Such as the expandable, powder-coated concertina barriers we supply.
You can install this versatile safety barrier in minutes, to cordon off current work areas, barricade high-risk areas or control vehicle and machinery movement. All without costly structural work.
Our Barricade™ safety barriers are suitable for external use too and feature a unique safety clasp to aid storage and relocation.
Height Restriction Clatter Bar
Sometimes the biggest threats to workplace safety come from above. Including low lying structures that catch out an off-road vehicle driver or someone operating machinery typically used in warehousing.
This is another situation in which simple logic can be used. In the form of our height-warning polymer clatter bars, which can be hung in a wide range of locations. They stand up to substantial knocks, reliably warning drivers and machinery operators that they’re getting too close to their height limits.
Floor graphics for instant responses
Products to support traffic safety in the workplace need to be clear and instantly recognisable as a warning. Just like seeing or hitting a clatter bar is a firm ‘wake-up call’, you can buy graphic markers for your floor that get important messages across swiftly and unambiguously.
The fundament graphics we supply as floor markers are universally recognised symbols that leave your workforce and visitors in no doubt that they should proceed with caution, or not at all! The highly visible floor signs also include pictures to encourage adherence to safety rules such as not using mobile phones.
Advice on traffic safety in the workplace
These six versatile, low-cost traffic safety products for workplaces are just some of the H&S solutions you can buy from us.
We would be delighted to provide free advice on traffic management products for internal and external use. Especially bespoke ways to protect your staff, machinery, infrastructure and productivity, on a tight budget.