What are the dangers of a Train Shed?

Train sheds are essential to ensure proper maintenance. Not only this, they make it easier to detect and prevent any risk or potential dangers for staff and users. However, they can still be just as hazardous and need awareness at all times. This is due to two reasons: the nature of the job and its environment. There has to be many different parts to maintenance, meaning a shed has to be divided for different needs. This creates a hub of a variety of employees working on different tasks. Throughout the day, this can increase risks and difficulties to communicate. As machinery operates, workers can tend to feel a certain sensory overload, especially due to the noise. Sheds are especially susceptible to technical incidents and natural disasters. In these conditions, raising awareness is essential.

How to take appropriate precautions?

Clear communication is essential to ensure a safe workday when one uses tools. Having different kinds of signaling can be extremely helpful to achieve better awareness. In the case of an issue or potential risk, workers will be the first to notice and therefore able to alert. They must be able to provide quick communication. Not only this, but it is also key for them to reach out to the most people possible. Having regular safety trainings can therefore save one’s life but also the lives of those around. Raising constant awareness for both one’s field of knowledge and the ones surrounding them is necessary for complete safety. Moreover, having different ways of alerting is crucial, to adapt to different people’s personal needs and environments.

Why Hazavoid?

Hazavoid offers fully wireless solutions, adaptable to previous infrastructures. Both the Hazavoid Wireless Alarm System (pictured above) and the Hazavoid Wireless Alert Beacon System come with a backup battery and solar panels. One can use these systems individually or together depending on their needs. The devices are flexible, scalable and modular. It is easy to install them on either walls or poles, for ease of access and better reach. Users do not need specific training to utilise the solutions to the best of their capacities. The Hazavoid wireless systems will not interfere with other frequencies. At the push of a button, an entire zone can be secured. Workers can easily carry around a remote and activate any system within 200 meters, the moment they notice a risk or danger.