WORKING AT HEIGHT | CANAL ENGINEERING LOAD SAFELY
WITH PALLET GATE SAFETY BARRIERS
When protecting a workforce in hazardous high-level environments, Ajax Safe Access has the optimum handling and protection solution.
Health and safety is a priority when it comes to working at height within a workplace. Often mezzanine floors are found in warehouses and factories to provide extra storage space or to create a new level for the processing, production or packaging of goods.
In this case, the location of the open edge needs to be designed in relation to the current workspace below. Enough room on the ground floor is required for a forklift truck to manoeuvre below, while carrying goods and raise them up to the high level mezzanine platform without causing disruption.
With this in mind, it is often found that the open edge location is situated above and adjacent to a loading bay door or an area that allows factory vehicles to manoeuvre in and around. This will provide easy access to the mezzanine for efficient loading and handling.
Because an employer is responsible for the health and safety of their employees, it is important to eliminate any risk of accidents, especially falls from height when working on high level platforms.
At no point should an employee be exposed to an open edge. By installing railings, handrails and barriers an employer can eliminate any exposed edges and create a safe working environment while at height.
These protection barriers help protect the operatives using the mezzanine floor but also the people on the lower level below. If any goods or pallets happen to fall from height off of the mezzanine because there was no edge protection, this could potentially lead to an unwanted accident.
Installing a pallet gate safety barrier onto a mezzanine floor will offer all round edge protection for operatives working on the mezzanine when loading and unloading at height.
When one side of the pallet gate barrier is open for the goods to be loaded into the gates’ loading bay from below, the other side of the gate acts as a safety barrier so operatives cannot fall off the edge.
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While loading, a pallet gate can be securely locked until the goods are ready to be handled. Then once the goods are ready to be moved onto the mezzanine, the pallet gate can be unlocked and moved into its reverse position, where the operative can take the goods out of the loading bay, knowing there is full edge protection and 100% safety at height.
Pallet gates can play a key part within a warehouse environment
not only for health and safety reasons, but also for improved productivity and workplace efficiency. They are extremely easy to install, but can be removed and re- positioned elsewhere if the design of the mezzanine floor needed changing in the future.
You don’t have to be superhuman to operate the gates. The spring assisted gates are designed for easy manual operation and have a proven track record for being reliable when handling and storing materials onto mezzanine floors and high level platforms.
Ajax offer two styles, which both have counterbalance operations, supported with a locking mechanism to hold the position. Both come in two widths to accommodate either single or double width pallet loads.
SPACE SAVING ROLL OVER PALLET GATE For an area with restricted floor space, the Roll Over is ideal. Its design allows the loading and unloading of goods and only uses half the space of the load when in its closed position.
LARGE LOADING SWING ARM PALLET GATE The Swing Arm Gate has a heavy duty construction and a larger capacity than the Roll Over Gate, therefore it is recommended for larger, taller loads.
BESPOKE PALLET GATES The unique value Ajax holds is the ability to fully customise their standard Pallet Gate designs to meet your bespoke requirements, but in-keeping with the latest British Standards.
www.ajax.gb.com TOMORROW’S HEALTH & SAFETY YEARBOOK 2017/18
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