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Proximity Warning Systems for Waste & Recycling
Protect your team from vehicle-person collisions and enhance safety across your site.
Why is a proximity warning system essential for your waste & recycling site?
The most critical dangers in a complex waste and recycling site are caused by vehicle-pedestrian interaction, carrying a high risk of collisions and fatal injuries. This is due to a shared workspace where the scale of operations and heavy equipment create blind spots and a reactive safety culture.
Our proximity warning systems for waste & recycling sites are designed to proactively address this risk by providing audible and visual warnings, which eliminate blind spots and increase situational awareness.
Access our dedicated health and safety guide for more information.
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How do our proximity warning systems for waste & recycling work?
ZoneSafe enhances safety across your waste and recycling site by using RFID technology to create a 360-degree detection zone around vehicles, reliably detecting workers even when they are hidden.
Vehicle & Pedestrian Alerts: The system uses antennas on vehicles and tags worn by workers. When a tag enters the detection zone, both the vehicle driver and the pedestrian receive immediate alerts – the driver via an in-cab unit and the worker via a tag vibration.
Sees Through Obstacles: Unlike camera-based systems, ZoneSafe works reliably through walls, piles of waste, and other site obstacles, ensuring constant protection even in obstructed areas.
Enhanced Awareness: This two-way alert system ensures that both parties are aware of a potential hazard before it becomes a collision.
Which vehicles can ZoneSafe be fitted to?
Our proximity warning systems for waste and recycling can be easily integrated with a wide range of industrial vehicles, ensuring consistent safety across your entire fleet.
Forklifts
Designed to overcome the many different blind spots that significantly increase the risk of collisions by creating a 360-degree detection zone.
Shovel Loaders
Mitigates the high risk posed to pedestrians by the vehicle's large buckets and attachments, which create significant driver blind spots, by providing a clear detection zone.
Excavators
Specifically addresses the massive blind spots created by the vehicle's rotating body and boom arm to prevent collisions by detecting people and vehicles in their path.
How do ZoneSafe systems adapt to dynamic waste and recycling facilities?
ZoneSafe proximity warning systems for waste & recycling are engineered for high adaptability, ensuring effective collision avoidance no matter your worksite’s unique layout or operational challenges. This makes your site safer, especially in areas where separating pedestrians and vehicles isn’t always possible due to hand-sorting or dynamic operations.
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Glass recycling
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Wood recycling
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Mixed recycling
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Paper recycling
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Composting
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Scrap and metal
Vehicle to Person Alert
Vehicle to Person Alert provides two-way feedback, warning both vehicle drivers and pedestrian workers of each other's presence via alerts from the in-cab control unit and tag vibration.
Vehicle to Vehicle Alert
Vehicle to Vehicle Alert warns drivers of approaching vehicles, helping to significantly reduce the risk of collision by providing early vehicle detection warning and close proximity alerts, making your worksite a safer place to be.
Activated Signage
Implementing ZoneSafe's vehicle-activated signage provides a practical solution to enhance onsite safety. Signs only flash when the vehicle is present, warning both site users and visitors located in the area to any approaching vehicles.
Site Access Control
Restricting site access to only your employees or anyone given a ZoneSafe tag reduces the risk of accidents. Only ZoneSafe tags open gates or barriers to a restricted area meaning they'll be detected and warned should they get too close to a moving vehicle.
Safe Zone Masking Areas
In hand-sorting waste areas or where vehicles work side by side with pedestrian workers, over alarming can prove frustrating. Using a ZoneSafe Qu-box will mask the system enabling vehicles to operate without triggering an alarm.
Data Management
My.ZoneSafe, is our cloud-based insight and data management platform, which records and displays event data (such as near miss occurrences) to inform Health and Safety managers of potential hazards and collision hotspots.
Proven Results: Hear From Our Customers
We’ve helped many companies improve their on-site safety by implementing our proximity warning systems for waste & recycling.
ZoneSafe helped Recresco improve recycling safety on site by protecting pedestrians working around shovel loaders.
Thamesdown Recycling successfully transformed its work environment. Dual alerts prevent potential collisions before they occur.
“We have a strong commitment to worker safety… we felt the incorporation of a sensor and warning system was an essential investment.”
Eric Gent, Director – Recresco
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Some of the clients we have worked with:
Other projects we’ve delivered
Virginia Hayward,
Warehousing & Logistics
Warehousing & Logistics
Virginia Hayward has reported a dramatic reduction in the number of near misses and accidents since the implementation of ZoneSafe.
Keyo,
Agricultural Services
Agricultural Services
ZoneSafe enhanced situational awareness and decreased the chances of vehicle/pedestrian incidents while preserving the welfare of the animals.
SAAM Ports,
Cargo Support Services
Cargo Support Services
SAAM carried out an evaluation project to find a solution to protect personnel and assets from vehicle collisions within their ports.
Mondi,
Paper & Packaging Manufacturer
Paper & Packaging Manufacturer
Following previous near-misses, Mondi chose to install a ZoneSafe V2P system. This was later expanded to an integrated V2V & V2P system.
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