WASTE RECYCLING ADVERTORIAL
SiteZone wastes no time in making ISM site safer from personnel/vehicle collision risk
THE waste sector has been identified, yet again in 2019, as one of the most dangerous sectors to work in, the risks being 17 times higher than the average. There were seven fatal injuries in the waste sector during 2018/19 overall. 30% were caused by contact with moving machinery and 28% by moving vehicles. It’s no surprise that contractors are looking to take their employees’ safety very seriously.
ISM Waste & Recycling Ltd process a wide range of waste streams, sending residual waste to CHP (combined heat and power) energy plants. ISM also offers waste collection services for trade waste bins, skips, roll on/roll off containers, and compaction containers.
With such a full remit of activity, ISM sought a control measure to improve segregation of pedestrians and traffic movement on their busy site to mitigate collision risk. Having met Gary Escott, co-founder of SiteZone Safety, at the 2017 Health & Safety Expo when visiting the SiteZone Safety stand, the SHEQ Manager, Richard Carter, decided to follow up with a call.
Let’s change the way we do things Normally on an ISM site, there would be pedestrian walkways and crossings, but additional controls were needed to further enhance safety when addressing collision risk. ISM’s primary aim was to reduce the risk of collision between the workforce and visitors and plant vehicles on site. It was a fundamental safety need that they felt SiteZone Safety could address effectively.
The best benefit of using SiteZone is as an enhancement to existing control measures already implemented, such as walkways and pedestrian crossings which already segregate vehicle and pedestrian movement.”
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From the client’s perspective, their main concern about applying SiteZone on site was getting employee buy-in, as often, workers don’t like change.
From the SiteZone team’s efficiency perspective, they felt that installing a limiter in certain areas where people could stand safely and not set off the proximity warning alarm would be sensible. There’s always a risk that SiteZone tag wearing employees on foot would trigger the proximity alarm if they happened to be walking by on the segregated walkways and the application of SiteZone limiter technology removes these unnecessary alarms.
Why would you need SiteZone? The very nature of waste and recycling sites means that there’s significant plant and vehicle movement, not to mention other vehicles that are ‘visiting’ for various reasons. In such a busy environment, it was deemed essential to raise awareness among the drivers operating the plant vehicles and to people working and walking around the site of the imminent dangers posed by possible collision between them.
ISM was specifically concerned for the safety of over 40 workers, operating in a collision risk environment at work. They needed to outfit two loading shovels, three forklift trucks, one small selector
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