PLANT MACHINERY/SITE SAFETY
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
To successfully develop and apply solutions for anti-collision safety, it’s essential to work closely with the client and properly understand their needs, suggests Gary Escott, MD of SiteZone Safety.
AN HONEST PROFESSIONAL
RELATIONSHIP MATTERS When it comes to achieving the best results in in personnel/vehicle collision avoidance, I’m a supporter of getting up close and personal with your client. The more you know about what they need, then the better you can cater to it.
Being more consultative with safety provision makes business sense. Establish good communication and collaboration with a client, and it’s more likely that you’ll create the right solutions together.
I also believe that as a safety solutions provider, you’ve got to be brave. If your solution isn’t right, be honest and say you can’t apply it. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should. Let me illustrate what I mean by that: Imagine you’re surveying a site for collision avoidance measures; there’s a working excavator, which has a free-swinging load and is also engaged in lifting. If a proximity warning wearing tag wearer comes into the zone and ‘stops’ the machine because the alarm has been activated, this could create a potentially more dangerous situation. A sudden stop combined with a free-swinging load make a definite risk. In this situation, it would be prudent to defer to the plant operator instead, who would know what the best and safest action would be.
MULTIDIMENSIONAL SAFETY - BEING PART OF
THE CLIENT’S JOURNEY At SiteZone Safety, we choose to approach our offerings as multidimensional safety solutions. We don’t just apply our technology because we can, as it’s pointless to do so if it does not address a need.
As consultants, we are part of the solution, and so are the client’s site workers, plant operators, site managers, and health and safety professionals. The proximity warning tag wearing workers are half of the equation
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because wearing plant/personnel PPE instils a sense of understanding and value of why they wear it. It’s behavioural influence, it’s not just about having a high- performance product.
We have to work with everything and be absolutely certain that our site surveys are detailed and correct. All together, they collaborate to create the safety journey around a site that ultimately caters for the bigger picture of provision. The SiteZone team seeks to integrate into the journey at every stage, seamlessly complementing the practices and protocols already in place.
JOIN ALL THE DOTS AND EVOLVE Successfully joining all the dots on site safety depends
on setting specific guidelines on each project that we cater for. That means addressing how each plant machine is set up for individual tasks, and who will be working/moving around it – all these factors determine what the proximity warning configuration will be. Telematic data capture on personnel/ vehicle interaction helps immensely at this stage to demonstrate on site needs to a client.
There is not ‘one size for all’ when it comes to the application of collision avoidance provision. In fact, more harm than good can be done if the client’s requirements are not understood, and then the technology cannot fulfil the safety objective.
Adopting this approach has proven a success for us time after time, and it is reflected very clearly in how our collision-avoidance technology has evolved. The individual input and needs of our clients over the years have identified new routes in our tech development – again, purely based on feedback, observation, and behaviour.
The focus, therefore, really isn’t on the product, but also, significantly on the users. One doesn’t succeed without the input of the other. Vehicle/personnel interface is a journey so making it safe shouldn’t be harder than it has to be.
https://proximitywarning.com
www.tomorrowshs.com
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