Safety in factories and industrial buildings

Pedestrians, visitors, forklifts, high-speed handling equipment, elevated platforms and mezzanines – the risks of injury or even fatal accidents are omnipresent in a factory or industrial building. Not to mention the risk of damaging your products or equipment.

Securing workplaces and warehouses is therefore a real challenge. Indeed, in terms of safety and protection, a yellow line painted on the floor is definitely not enough. Update on the best solutions to consider in order to guarantee everyone’s safety.

Solutions to secure loading docks

The loading dock is a busy area: technical staff, workers, forklifts and trucks come and go all day long.

It is therefore essential to secure the entire dock in order to make the area less dangerous. For example, the edges of the dock are particularly risky. This is the part between the truck and the cargo area that is sometimes several feet high in order to adjust to the height of the truck. It is necessary to put in place metal doors that close on this area so that no worker can venture out when no vehicle is parked there.

It is also necessary to anchor the trucks properly to avoid jolts and the risk of them accidentally rolling away during loading / unloading. Retainer hooks and wheel locks are available for securing trucks and trailers during that process.

Solutions to secure machinery, equipment and stored products

Company assets must also be secured to prevent premature wear, unexpected breakdown or any accident. There is, for example, industrial security fencing that can be installed to surround machinery. Thus, their access is limited, which prevents any false manipulation on the part of a person passing near industrial equipment.

Products temporarily stored in a well-defined area can also be secured with portable barriers, retractable curtains, screens, and other devices. With this kind of solution, you have better control over your goods, raw materials, or finished products.

It is even possible to delimit areas to park machines such as forklifts thanks to these solutions. As a result, they are not exposed to mishandling when not in use.

Personal safety

The last most important point: it is essential to ensure the safety of people who circulate inside and outside the factory or industrial building. In this context, it is necessary to delimit the work zones.

You can do this with Rite-Hite safety gates for loading docks, warehouse guardrails, mezzanine and shelving security gates. These devices help protect against falls and prevent accidents in your facility.

Empty loading docks create a dangerous fall for workers and material handling equipment. When doors are left open to help improve air movement in facilities, it can create an even more precarious situation. For their part, chains or cones are not effective visual or physical barriers.

Note that falls can lead to work stoppage and represent the second most important cause of death in the workplace (source: National Safety Council, Injury Facts, 2012 edition).

Rite-Hite safety gates are designed with maximum safety in mind, while providing design flexibility and access when needed. Each of them can also be integrated with other security products for total protection.

Facilitate access to spaces

If your activities involve the use of moving equipment that poses a safety hazard, then securing that equipment is essential. In this specific case, the installation of a physical barrier is not necessarily sufficient or does not necessarily comply with safety standards.

Instead, opt for products designed to facilitate access to different spaces, and which withstand use in an industrial environment while providing protection at all times.

Trust Canado Nacan Equipements for your protection solutions

Canado Nacan Equipements is the specialist in solutions to secure your industrial environment and your loading docks.

We have quality products whose durability and reliability follow the most rigorous standards. We offer various ranges of various solutions adapted to each of your needs.

Beyond providing industrial protection solutions, we also have modern and sophisticated industrial equipment such as industrial curtains and doors, levelling bridges and industrial fans.

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