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Proximity Warning Systems for Forestry
Safeguard your crew against vehicle-pedestrian incidents and improve operational safety across your timber and forestry site.
Why are proximity warning systems for forestry essential?
The most significant dangers on a forestry and timber site come from the risk of collisions between people and machinery. Shared work zones and heavy equipment create hidden dangers and a reactive safety environment.
Our proximity warning systems for forestry environments are engineered to proactively counter this risk, providing clear warnings that eliminate blind spots and elevate situational awareness for everyone on site.
Access our dedicated health and safety guide for more information.
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How do our proximity warning systems for forestry work?
ZoneSafe elevates safety across your site by using RFID technology to create a protective, 360-degree detection field around vehicles. This ensures workers are reliably detected even when out of view.
Vehicle & Pedestrian Alerts: The system uses vehicle-mounted antennas to scan for ZoneSafe tags worn by workers. When a tag is detected, both the driver and the worker receive immediate, clear alerts – the driver via an in-cab unit and the worker through a tag vibration.
Sees Through Obstacles: Unlike camera-based systems, our technology uses radio waves that can “see” through solid objects. This means it works consistently through dense foliage, behind stacks of logs, and around other site obstacles, ensuring constant protection.
Enhanced Awareness: This two-way alert system ensures both the driver and the worker are instantly aware of a potential hazard, allowing them to prevent a near-miss from becoming a collision.
Which vehicles can ZoneSafe be fitted to?
Our proximity warning systems for forestry 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 a forklift’s load, cab, and unique shape to protect personnel on foot.
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, preventing collisions in all directions.
How do our proximity warning systems for forestry adapt to diverse environments?
ZoneSafe proximity warning systems for forestry are built to adapt to unique challenges of timber operations, ensuring effective collision avoidance no matter your worksite’s layout or operational demands. This makes your site safer, especially in environments where separating pedestrians and vehicles isn’t always possible.
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Saw milling
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Transportation
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Ground working
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Debogging
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 to notify the driver and tag vibration alerting the pedestrian.
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 forestry.
Leading UK sawmill, Charles Ransford & Son, implemented pedestrian detection systems on loading shovels.
James Jones & Sons, established over 150 years ago, is a family-owned timber processor with sites in various locations across the UK.
“After Installing ZoneSafe, it greatly reduced the risk on-site. ZoneSafe has proven to be reassuring to the employees. It’s a sound investment and something others should look into, especially if involved in transport and logistics.”
Jason Perry, SHEQ Manager – Charles Ransford & Sons
Other projects we’ve delivered
Virginia Hayward,
Warehousing & Logistics
Warehousing & Logistics
Virginia Hayward reported a dramatic reduction in near misses and accidents since the implementation of ZoneSafe.
Gray Forklift Services,
Forklift Supplier
Forklift Supplier
Gray Forklift Services Ltd selected ZoneSafe to manage their fleet of trucks and health and safety needs.
SAAM Ports,
Cargo Support Services
Cargo Support Services
SAAM sought a solution to protect personnel and assets from vehicle collisions within their ports.
Liberty Steel,
Steel Manufacturer
Steel Manufacturer
Liberty Steel implemented a vehicle safety and asset protection system to stop cranes from colliding.
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