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active 7 years, 7 months agoAfter successful trials a cutting-edge remote access gate to assist protect highways workers, developed between partners Colas and Solar and Electric Gates Ltd (S&EG) and called Readi-Guard, has launched throughout the UK. Reads-Guard uses the latest technology and it was designed for the Partnership A-One+, between Colas Ltd, Halcrow Group Ltd, and Costain Group Plc.
It removes manual operation of access points allowing authorised vehicles access to worksites and preventing motorists from wanting to enter work areas which can be tied to the population, protecting the highways workers inside. Motorist will frequently try to enter work zones be a catalyst for abuse for highways workers, in particular, those who are operating the access points.
Both Ryan Wood, the Colas technical manager, and Dennis Gregg, Colas associate director as well as a-one+, recognise your schedule and risks involved whilst being a traffic management company Management Operative. Gregg went on to highlight that abuse to highways workers through the drivers of passing vehicles should not be ignored as it’s, unfortunately, a normal occurrence of their chosen profession.
Both Wood and Gregg agreed that access suggests work sites were a real part of concern’ because this is where highways workers and the public can interact and, as a result, this leads to potential confrontations. Normally these access points need to be closed and opened manually to be able to allow authorised vehicles usage of a piece site. The Readi-Guard takes highways worker outside the feeder point and allowing its operation remotely, preventing confrontations together with the public and setting up a safe environment for the children.
Wood stated that the partnership with S&EG meant that they have developed a system that forestalls live traffic management services and passing drivers being a danger to highways workers, especially the access point operators, when they open work these points. Furthermore, the ease of the systems deployment provides for short usage nevertheless the system is also designed for long term usage.
Wood confirmed the successful trials had led to ‘keen interest’ in Readi-Guard from government owned highway operators,and today the device will be rolled to be used in the united states. He continued to state that the Readi-Guard is a throughly thought out system that solves an element that made a real risk to highways workers among others active in the traffic management.
With the potential for danger to highways workers, this new technology demonstrates the benefit for developing a safe workplace by the-One+.
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