PCE's SlingSafe makes vehicle offloading easier and safer.
A new fully-patented safety platform designed specifically for loading and offloading goods vehicles has been launched by PCE.
Innovative Slingsafe draws upon the company’s 40 years’ experience of the UK construction industry and has been designed to eliminate falls and subsequent injuries suffered during loading or offloading.
With more than one fifth* of all reportable UK work-related accidents occurring near vehicles, PCE believes the system has the potential to reduce injuries and fatalities across many industries.
The revolutionary Slingsafe features two rotating booms which can be extended over any large open delivery vehicle. Both booms can be adjusted for height and length to cater for all loads and situations.
Personnel are secured to the booms via a pulley system and fail-safe fall arrest device – much like an inertia reel seatbelt -- which automatically locks and prevents a fall, should the wearer slip or stumble during loading or unloading operations.
A secondary safety cord can be adjusted personally by the operative to ensure that the boom to which they are attached follows them as they move about the vehicle.
Operatives are clipped on from the rear, allowing them unhindered movement during loading procedures, the safety lines only locking during sudden movement akin to that caused by a slip, fall or stumble.
Access to the lorry trailer is provided by strategically placed gateways in the platform safety rails and the height of the whole structure can be adjusted to accommodate the most commonly used trailer types.
The “two boom” system has been designed to avoid fouling the hook block and chains, which will typically impede an operative moving from one end of the load to the other. The design allows the operative to return to the platform, cross safely to the second boom and clip on before completing slinging of the load ready for hoisting.
PCE, which specialises in the design and construction of concrete structures, designed Slingsafe with its own operations primarily in mind, but sees significant potential for the system throughout the construction sector and across other industries.
Comments Vince Wetton, PCE Managing Director: “Slingsafe is the result first and foremost of PCE ensuring the health and safety of its own personnel. But we believe there is major potential for the system across the construction sector and other parallel industries where loading and unloading is an everyday task.
”There is certainly nothing the construction industry can deliver that cannot be offloaded safely using Slingsafe.”
The arrival of Slingsafe follows earlier award-winning safety systems patented by the company, including its Ambitus leading edge safety system, which allows scaffold-free construction of precast concrete structures.
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