Salvo now quicker & easier to install
August 1st 2008 Industrial safety specialist Castell has
revamped its Salvo range of driveawayprevention
products with third-party
installers and distributors in mind.
The most significant new product to be
introduced is a plug-and-play control panel.
The PCB-based, software-programmable
device is multi-voltage and able to power
external traffic lights and beacons, greatly
simplifying and speeding up the installation
process.
Other additions to the range include
Salvo Club – which secures rigid vehicles by
locking the steering wheel in place – and
Salvo Bollard, a modular barrier system
compatible with many kinds of access lock.
The latter can be interlocked with a
component other than the door, allowing
warehouse doors to be safely left open
during the hot summer months. It is also
suitable for loading bays that do not have
doors.
A comprehensive user guide is also now
available, providing all the information
required for sales, distribution, installation
and maintenance. Thanks to a
manufacturing shift to product end-coding,
lead times have been reduced from six
weeks to just one.
According to the Fork Lift Truck
Association – of which Castell is a member -
over 400 serious injuries result from fork liftrelated
accidents every year, including
around eight fatalities. It is estimated that
10% of these incidents occur during loading
operations, often when articulated lorries
prematurely leave their designated loading
bay, creating a gap into which the fork lift
then falls. Such an accident is known as a
'driveaway', and it was to eradicate precisely
this kind of event that Castell developed its
interlocking Salvo range four years ago. The
recent HSE booklet 'Warehousing and
storage: A guide to health and safety'
recommends interlocks as a safe system of
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