WHEN SHOULD A PEDESTRIAN BARRIER BE INSTALLED?

It is not uncommon for people and machines or transport vehicles to coexist in a workplace. Thus, the risk of collision, damage and injury is high. It is clear that common sense is not enough to avoid such accidents. It is best to install a pedestrian protection barrier to distinguish the traffic lanes for people and for machinery. But essentially to protect your employees from injury.

How does a pedestrian safety barrier work?

The purpose of such a device is to protect people who visit the plant from possible accidents with vehicles and handling machines. You can therefore act in different ways by eliminating or reducing the risks.

But the installation of a pedestrian protection barrier must be accompanied by awareness raising. Staff must be trained on possible accidents that may occur in the warehouse. He must, in turn, be able to brief visitors or customers who may come to the hangar.

This outreach program concerns both the exterior security barrier in the car park and the entrance to the building and the barriers installed within the warehouse to mark out the traffic lanes.

What about the prevention and protection barrier?

The risks are real in factories. Apart from collisions with transport machinery, there are also chemical risks, such as smoke or the presence of toxic substances. In this case, it is always necessary to protect the users of the warehouse.

You can set up a prevention barrier such as:

raising awareness of the real existence of risks;

regular inspection of the premises to control activities and assess the risks involved;

the automatic activity locking system if an accident occurs.

As for the protective barrier:

install a pedestrian protection barrier outside and inside;

install warning detection devices to prevent further damage;

set up an emergency plan if the accident is unavoidable.

These measures combine technical barriers and organizational barriers for optimal security.

A pedestrian protection barrier to avoid collision with machines

In a warehouse, many machines are used to transport or move the goods and materials necessary for your activity. Since the people at the controls of these machines have a restricted view of their environment, they cannot see the comings and goings in the factory.

In the same way, people, employees and visitors alike, cannot always anticipate the appearance of these machines on the various lanes of the factory. The risk of collision is therefore high. This also applies to outdoor locations such as the company car park.

In any case, it is important to protect people from these risks of collision. There are several possibilities:

Define walkways for pedestrians and for vehicles by separating them with a protective pedestrian barrier .

Draw markings on the ground to delimit these different routes. In this case, it is necessary to mark the direction of circulation.

Theft control equipment

Customers may enter your warehouse or hangar to pick up or check on goods. You should also protect them from possible collision accidents. As they are not accustomed to the different orientations in the hangar, they must be guided.

At the same time, you must guard against possible bad intentions. You can then install clearly visible barriers in your car park, at the entrance to the factory and in front of each high-traffic room or sensitive part of the hangar. No one will be able to cross these barriers without prior authorization, manual or electronic, from a manager.

Security gates that can be easily installed and removed are often used to control the flow of pedestrians. They can therefore close and open either by pivoting or by sliding.

Protective devices to secure your goods

People like officers, machinists, technicians and all personnel are not the only ones exposed in the event of a collision. A poorly controlled vehicle or handling machine can also hit your shelves, your pallets filled with stacks of boxes, etc.

It is therefore important to install other industrial protection barriers. In front of the doors, you can install security posts or bollards . In front of the storage shelves , you have to think about various shock-absorbing devices.

You can therefore install skirting boards , barriers or gates according to your needs. There are equipment to fix to the wall, to peg to the ground or to fit together. The main thing is that they manage to absorb the shocks left by a possible collision with a handling machine.

The pedestrian protection barrier comes in various forms, such as point protection or complete protection in the form of a fence .

How to choose a pedestrian protection barrier?

The most important thing is to install practical and effective pedestrian protection. At Boplan, you will find many models of protective pedestrian barriers and outdoor safety barriers.

We put the honor on flexible plastic devices, which effectively absorb shocks without risk of deformation. After each impact, the pedestrian protection barrier remains intact, requiring no repairs. At the same time, pedestrians or goods are not at risk of being hit.

Your barriers can be fixed, weighted or extendable. Fixed, they are anchored to the wall or the ground and protect a track permanently. Lestables, they are not fixed and can therefore be used in different consecutive places. Expandable, they can be modulated as you wish and are especially suitable for temporary use.