Key to loading bay safety
April 1st 2010 Salad grower, packer and distributor,
Vitacress, has chosen Castell's Salvo
driveaway prevention system to
protect warehouse staff at its
Amesbury facility.
Following a couple of incidents in
which drivers departed from loading
bays with loaders still inside the
trailer, management at Amesbury
decided that it needed to find a
system to guarantee loader safety. Up
to that point, drivers handed over
their keys and were asked to obey
traffic lights, but neither measure
was foolproof.
Salvo was the first system trialled
and, after satisfying Vitacress'
expectations, it was installed on five
loading bays. There have been no
recorded driveaways since
installation.
Once a driver has reversed up to
the relevant loading bay, they collect
a Salvo lock from the storage box in
the office, fit it to the emergency
airline coupling and remove the key,
immobilising the trailer. The key is
then inserted into a control box next
to the bay door and turned. This
causes amber beacons to flash inside
the bay and allows the door to be
opened and the dock leveller
positioned.
The key remains trapped in the
control box while the door is open.
Once loading or unloading is
complete, the door is closed, the key
released from the control box and
the Salvo removed from the airline
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