FSM
Stadium Safety
Scoring With Stadium Safety 'Prevention is the best cure', says Debbie Philip of Skipper™
Safety and clarity are key when it comes to football and sports stadiums. On average, 2,500 spectators are treated for matchday injuries across the top English football leagues – every season.1 With slips, trips and falls accounting for almost a third of these, prevention is the best cure.
This means keeping walkways clear and signposted, providing easy-to-understand directions and ensuring main areas are clean and litter-free as much as possible at all times.
Preventing accidents is always preferable to dealing with their consequences - personal and financial - so it’s important to have clear safety and cleanliness equipment and signage in order to create and maintain a positive culture of clarity in areas wherever queueing is required, or people might be standing - kiosks, toilets, walkways.
There are quality tools to do this. Skipper™ works with a
number of sports and leisure venues - football clients include Manchester United, Celtic, Fulham, Wolves and Nottingham Forest, as well as some of the US World Cup match stadia. As the leading manufacturer of safety management products we help these clubs maintain cultures of safety, thanks to our portfolio of safety and waste products.
We have been in operation since 2004, when we introduced the world’s first patented cone top barrier. Since then, our team has supplied over 30 innovative health and safety products to a range of industries, including civil engineering, transport, hospitality, construction and health. We distribute on a global scale, with clients including British Airways, NASA, Hilton, BAE Systems and Balfour Beatty.
The team at Skipper™ works closely with our clients to
understand their health and safety needs and we recognise that every stadium and every event is different.
It’s through these close working relationships that we are able to continually invest in our barrier products, introducing new and better ways to provide direction, signage, safety and security – tailored to each client thanks to the versatile nature of the products.
26 FSM C8 Barrier System
Our latest launch is the perfect example of this. Created with versatility in mind, the new C8 barrier system provides superior levels of safety and stability across a range of surfaces and environments, thanks to its injection-moulded reflective panels and dual connectors that can articulate 360 degrees.
Unlike other safety barriers on the market, the Skipper™ C8 has
patented dual locks with magnets in the connectors, joining the panels at the top and the bottom. This offers more security than industry standard single hook and eye connectors, and ensures superior stability over a range of floor or ground surfaces, which is further supported by anti-trip feet -providing reassurance for all indoor and outdoor safety. The dynamic design of these anti- trip feet provide a permanent fixing to the floor for longer projects.
Mobile
The very nature of many sports stadiums is that their events vary massively -
layout requirements change, queue systems
vary. This means safety barriers need to be mobile while staying strong. The C8 is easy to adapt and transport for any size job, as it can be broken down into 1m x 1m sections, meaning each bevelled, smooth-edged panel can be moved easily, even in smaller vehicles (unlike larger chapter 8 barriers), and they can also be attached to Skipper’s wider existing range of retractable barrier and waste management products, giving them even more versatility. This means they work for locations where they may need to be taken down at night, or moved at the weekends. They are perfect for any sized event, offering true versatility.
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