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Proximity Warning Systems for Aggregates & Quarries
Safeguarding people and assets in challenging environments.
Why is a proximity warning system essential for your mining, aggregates, and quarry operations?
Vehicle-pedestrian interaction poses a critical danger in quarries, accounting for 40% of all accidents and 60% of fatalities. The challenging environment, affected by noise, limited visibility, and obstructions – leads to a lack of situational awareness.
Our proximity warning systems for aggregates and quarries proactively address this risk by providing drivers with clear, prominent audible and visual warnings. The system also provides haptic feedback via a vibrating tag to pedestrians, protecting them from heavy plant and machinery.
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How do proximity warning systems for aggregates and quarries work?
ZoneSafe leverages advanced RFID technology to create a 360-degree detection zone around heavy plant machinery, ensuring pedestrians are detected even when out of a driver’s line of sight.
Detects Through Obstructions: Unlike camera systems, our RFID technology works reliably through dust, fog, and around large piles of aggregate to provide consistent protection.
Proactive Alerts: The system delivers clear audible and visual warnings to the driver, while a pedestrian’s tag provides critical haptic feedback to cut through a noisy environment.
Mitigates Blind Spots: Our system directly addresses the extensive blind spots of vehicles like excavators, loaders, and dump trucks, significantly reducing the risk of collisions.
Which vehicles can ZoneSafe be fitted to?
Our proximity warning systems for quarries can be easily integrated with a wide range of industrial vehicles, ensuring consistent safety across your entire fleet.
Forklifts
Designed to overcome the significant blind spots caused by the forklift's load, cab, and unique shape, and a distorted view from the cab.
Shovel Loaders
Mitigates the high risk posed to pedestrians by the vehicle's large size and attachments, which create significant driver blind spots.
Excavators
Specifically addresses blind spots created by the boom arm, grab attachment, and the vehicle's 360-degree rotation, which increases the risk of collisions.
Dump Trucks
Mitigates the high risk posed by a dump truck's large size by addressing significant blind spots at the back, front, and sides of the vehicle.
How do proximity warning systems for aggregates and quarries adapt to their environments?
ZoneSafe proximity warning systems for aggregates and quarries are engineered to address the unique complexities of the mining, aggregates, and quarries sector, providing comprehensive protection to actively safeguard both people and high-value assets.
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Rock extraction
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Aggregate crushing
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Excavation
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Blasting
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Material screening
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Mining
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
ZoneSafe's vehicle-activated signage enhances onsite safety by flashing only when a vehicle is present, warning site users and visitors of approaching vehicles.
Site Access Control
By restricting site access to only those with a ZoneSafe tag, the system reduces the risk of accidents. Tags are required to open gates or barriers to restricted areas, and the user will be detected and warned if they get too close to a moving vehicle.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Detection
This anti-collision system reduces the risk of accidents between moving vehicles by providing two configurable warning zones: an outer pre-warning zone and an inner close-proximity warning zone.
Data Management
My.ZoneSafe is our cloud-based platform that 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 aggregates and quarries.
Eurovia Roadstone, one of the world’s largest asphalt producers installed a ZoneSafe proximity safety solution in Dagenham.
Leading building materials suppliers, Hanson – Dagenham integrates site-wide access control and pedestrian safety solution.
“The safety proximity sensors are hugely beneficial for what we do because now employees and other members of staff have become more aware of the loading shovel. It would be brilliant if this innovation was rolled out across the industry. If it saves one person’s life, it would be worth it.“
Emma Barnard, Asphalt Technician – Eurovia
Some of the clients we have worked with:
Other projects we’ve delivered
Peterson,
Transport & Logistics
Transport & Logistics
The implementation encourages workers to be vigilant where vehicles work in close proximity.
Ball Packaging,
Aluminium Packaging
Aluminium Packaging
Ball wanted additional safety measures to be put in place to avoid a serious workplace accident.
Mondi,
Paper & Packaging Manufacturer
Paper & Packaging Manufacturer
Mondi is a leading manufacturer in packaging and paper, with over 26,000 employees around the world.
Liberty Steels,
Steel Manufacturer
Steel Manufacturer
Liberty Steel implemented a vehicle safety and asset protection system to stop cranes from colliding.
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