Safety Barriers for Warehouses
Enforcing work health and safety standards in your warehouse is no easy task. With plant and pedestrians keeping your stock moving in and out, the chance of them running into each other with tragic results can be high. Of course, you must educate your workforce to follow traffic management plans and install warning signage to keep pedestrians and forklifts separated. But even the best precautions can fail in the face of human error. The good news is that you can radically reduce forklift accidents by installing effective safety barriers around your warehouse.

Why Use a Safety Barrier?
With the average forklift weighing 1360 kg + loads of up to 2000kg, forklift can become a potentially deadly weapon if used in an uncontrolled way.
Pedestrians. racking, conveyors and other machinery or equipment is at risk whenever there’s a forklift operating in close proximity. However, though warehouse vehicles are a kinetic risk, most of the damage they can cause can be absorbed or mitigated if there’s an effective safety barrier in place.
Welldesigned and tested safety barriers can absorb lowlevel impact from forklifts, order pickers, walkie stackers, pallet jacks, and other types of warehouse vehicles without damaging them or the surface where they are installed.

Adding safety barriers to your warehouse business may save you tens of thousands of dollars in the long run money that you’d otherwise spend on repairs or in settling expensive legal liability and compensation claims.Barriers can also increase your staff’s awareness of their surroundings. Indeed, their mere presence and bright yellow color can remind pedestrians to keep an eye for incoming vehicles even if they can’t hear them or see them at the moment.However, if a warning isn’t enough to reduce the risk to an acceptable level and push comes to shove, well designed safety barriers have the flexibility and strength to absorb the impact of a moving vehicle safely and without significant side effects.