SiteZone Safety marks 10 years of ensuring workers’ safety from vehicle collision risk on the job.
The 14th of October 2019 marked the 10 year anniversary of SiteZone Safety. Originally known as OnGrade, the company focuses on improving the safety and efficiency of mobile plant operations.
Its primary objective is to prevent workers from succumbing to work-related collision incidents with vehicles and plant machinery. This is especially relevant in high risk industries, such as construction or waste and recycling, where workers are often in close proximity to vehicles and plant in confined spaces.
SiteZone Safety’s most well-known and successful safety offering is their RFID (radio frequency identification) proximity warning system. It was designed to be a safety enhancement to existing safety protocols and it reflects the best of harnessing technology for specific safety needs. SiteZone has evolved into a suite of proximity warning products that cater to the various collision risk demands of clients. In fact, there are 12,000 such tags being worn by workers across the UK to date.
The product range includes iNstant, which was the UK’s first wireless RFID PWS; Dumper Advance, a robust RFID PWS designed specifically for forward tipping dumpers, with more flexible exclusion zone capability; BucketZone, designed for extendable machine parts which may accidentally strike personnel; OverSite, the telematic function, which captures data from SiteZone to be used as a safety monitoring and benchmarking tool for managers; the latest – patent pending SmartBubble, that uses a range of technologies to increase the efficacy of the system on site.
SiteZone Safety has an ongoing relationship with hire partners ESS Safeforce, making SiteZone and its ancillary products accessible to all workers, and companies in high collision risk industries.
Gary Escott, Director and Co-founder, says “Thanks to the inherent flexibility of SiteZone proximity warning system it can be tailored to create bespoke anti-collision safety solutions for every client. It wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated SiteZone Safety team, and our partners and technical collaborators over the last decade. We look forward to doing even more to raise the bar on safety at work. We are so proud of how far we’ve come and the positive differences we’ve made – both technologically and in safety terms.”
