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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. 

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Railroad Workers

What are the Dangers of a Railroad?

Railroad work is quite dangerous. Collisions, derailments, and malfunctions are all reasons for injuries, or worse, death. This is due to both the nature of the job, as well as the long hours and conditions. Those issues are not new: building railroads has always been considered a dangerous occupation. In modern days, although safer, railroads’ work conditions are still a worry. Moving trains and high voltage electricity will always be a key part of the job, and one of the most dangerous aspects of it.

How to take appropriate precautions?

Track workers need to stay alert at an appropriate time of trains approaching. Some of those issues are easy to avoid. Taking adequate time to rest, and having enough workers at all times to keep focus, for instance, can help. In a lot of cases, awareness is a large factor. Indeed, following regulations is one of the first steps towards a safer workplace environment. Wearing bright clothes, having enough rest and communicating clearly can be the difference between an injury and death. But sometimes it is not enough. A number of systems exist and should be available in a danger zone to reduce risk to a minimum. This would allow workers to stay alert in many ways for every situation, and as soon as possible. Those solutions include visual, audio, and tactile alerts. The risk is always there, but lacking awareness and enough resources can only make the matter worse.

Why ATWS?

Railroad safety with ATWS

Our Automated Track Worker Safety (ATWS) System is your perfect railroad safety companion. It is lightweight and can adapt to any condition, to provide complete safety and peace of mind. The System provides different alarm solutions to help all kinds of workers, at any time. ATWS allows workers to carry certain warning devices on themselves or in their vehicles. With flashing lights, audio signaling, and vibrating alerts, it offers safety for the entire zone and allows one to always stay aware. All users need to do is to place stations at the start and end of the areas of concern. None of the parts of the system weigh more than a few kilos, this makes it easier to change location and adapt to many situations. From the moment danger starts to the moment it ends, the system will stay alert to protect you.

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