{"id":3294,"date":"2019-02-22T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:36:18","slug":"red-light-zones-around-machines-to-keep-colas-workers-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/red-light-zones-around-machines-to-keep-colas-workers-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Red light zones around machines to keep Colas workers safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colas has linked-up with a a local construction machinery specialist in the North East to boost safety on its road sites.<\/p>\n

Colas and Highway Service are beaming a clear red danger zone around their biggest machines.<\/p>\n

The red beam is a visible warning to operatives that they are in the danger area if they are inside the red line.<\/p>\n

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Colas said other contractors are now showing interest in adopting the system.<\/p>\n

Carl Fergusson, CEO at Colas UK said: “Our approach at Colas is to inspire, pioneer and freely share improvements to safety.<\/p>\n

“We are keen to foster relationships with other expert UK businesses which create innovative solutions which will be good for the whole industry \u2013 not just ourselves.<\/p>\n

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“We want to share this technology and are already sign-posting other firms to the developers, Highway Service.”<\/p>\n

Working with Colas operational teams, Highway Service took existing technology and developed it to create an unmistakable LED-lit red zone around the Colas construction machines.<\/p>\n

Throwing a light cordon around pavers and rollers leaves Colas staff in no doubt where workers and vehicles should be \u2013 and where they should not venture.<\/p>\n

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The system uses LED lights located on top of the machine or on the canopy. At night, these throw a clear red box around the vehicle, marking out a solid red line around the sides of the machine to a standard distance of two metres.<\/p>\n

This can be extended to match the size of the paving activity at the rear of the machine with a five metre clearance at the back in the case of pavers.<\/p>\n

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The system also includes blue arrow lights, which make clear to the roller drivers the extent of the exclusion zone at the rear of the paver.<\/p>\n

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Lee Corbett of Highway Service said: “We have been delighted to work closely with Colas on this project and we are really pleased with the results.”<\/p>\n

Fergusson added: “This type of knowledge transfer and collaboration in our industry is a strong example of the new direction of Colas in the UK, underpinned by our commitment to a safe, quality operational environment for our workforce.”<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2Ep2ofa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colas has linked-up with a a local construction machinery specialist in the North East to boost safety on its road sites. Colas and Highway Service are beaming a clear red danger zone around their biggest machines. The red beam is a visible warning to operatives that they are in the danger area if they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}