Minimise risks at vacant loading docks
Vacant loading docks create a dangerous drop of more than one meter. Safety barriers effectively barricades openings, preventing dock personnel – and in particular those driving fork lift trucks – from falling over the edge.
The brutality of this dangerous drop-off is often recognized only after it is too late and a serious accident has happened. Unfortunately the number of people killed each year in the UK falling from vehicles and moving equipment has risen during the last three years by 50%. Additionally, 52 people were critically injured in 2008/9 in connection with forklift truck accidents (source: HSC national statistics).
Pulled manually across vacant loading docks, safety barriers are a simple, easy-to-use solution for almost any loading dock.
During hot, summer months, the safety barrier can be used instead of the dock door, allowing fresh air to circulate whilst shielding employees from any risk.
