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By using the Visilite™, JSP’s unique lighting system for its EVO™ industrial safety helmets, the problem of gloomy and dim light at work can easily be avoided. Visilite™ is a flexible, durable fibre optic lighting system that increases worker visibility without dazzling colleagues.
The Visilite’s tough ABS casings ensure it can withstand knocks and scrapes. Effortless and quick to fit, it simply clips securely onto the sides and rear of any of JSP’s EVO range of helmets, allowing fibre optic light to shine all around the helmet. The splash-proof Visilite can even be used in wet weather.
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MORE VITAL THAN EVER As the evenings grow darker with the approach of winter, the need for optimum worker visibility on site increases.
At this time of year, the nights draw in more quickly, with less daylight in the mornings too. The weather is changing, and is more likely to be bleak, cloudy, stormy and wet, making visibility trickier.
COMPOSITES SET A NEW STANDARD FOR MANUAL
HANDLING Over the last two years, a staggering 4.5million working days were lost to workplace injuries. A fifth of these were caused by manual handling. One common activity that contributes to this, posing a high risk of manual handling injuries, is the removal and replacement of heavy concrete and metal manhole and trench covers. Their position and weight makes them an ideal culprit for back and finger injuries, which can be compounded if the covers corrode or crumble.
Composite materials are revolutionising an ever- broadening array of industries including aerospace, infrastructure, construction and now health and safety.
Visible up to 50 metres away, the Visilite offers three lighting modes – static, fast flash, or slow flash – so it suits the needs of any user. It works by LED lights shining low-level light down the fibre optic, which is refracted by the engraved logos on the optic strip. The unit is USB rechargeable, comes with a micro USB cable, and can even be charged whilst fitted to the helmet.
To ensure workers are visible at all times, whether walking to or from the site or whilst working, the Visilite is a simple, inexpensive, but invaluable asset to keep them safe at work during the darker months.
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A number of companies are using composites to create products that eliminate manual handling issues in the access cover industry.
Fibrelite are spearheading this change, with their covers weighing in at approximately one third of traditional alternatives, giving them the best strength to weight ratio in the industry. Fibrelite is in fact the only company to successfully engineer and manufacture composite covers with load ratings over 40 tonnes (D400). In 2016 they extended their range all the way up to 90 tonne (F900) load ratings for airports and ports.
David Holmes, Fibrelite’s Technical Director explained “one or two people can move any Fibrelite cover quickly and easily without risk of back injury or crushed fingers, at any load rating.”
Whilst the lightweight and corrosion-free properties of composites go a long way towards decreasing manual handling injuries, Fibrelite wanted to eliminate them altogether. They identified stooping as an additional cause of injury. To solve this, they created an ergonomically designed lifting handle, allowing users to safely remove and replace the covers keeping the load close to the waist, avoiding stooping or bending their backs. This allows users to adhere to the advised lifting technique from both the HSE and NHS.
According to Ian Thompson, Fibrelite’s Managing Director, there has been “a dramatic growth in the number of industries reducing their health and safety risks by using composites, both at new build facilities where Fibrelite covers are specified from the outset and at existing facilities modernising their previously installed covers”.
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