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The Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) members are the Industry’s leading suppliers of fixed protective guarding products designed to protect personnel, equipment, and inventory in industrial facilities. Mission: ProGMA promotes safety, security, and guarding for people, products, and facilities. ProGMA educates about protective barrier and guarding solutions through industry standards and best practices. Vision Statement: To be the authoritative resource for the best practices, standards, and applications of protective barrier, guarding solutions and associated technologies for industrial facilities. Protective Guarding Manufacturing Association member companies meet regularly to review and discuss industrial safety hazards and to promote specific guarding solutions for people, products, and facilities. ProGMA programs include: Development of educational materials for the promotion of proper protective guarding methods. Development, maintenance, and publishing of industry standards and specifications. Promotion of the features, advantages, and benefits of properly used protective guarding equipment. Development and promotion of standard nomenclature for protective guarding products. Dissemination of information regarding relevant legislation and international trade. Development, review and revision of product standards. Confidential collection and reporting of market statistics for different types of guarding products. Protective Guarding is a fixed barrier or device, used in manufacturing, distribution, and other industrial facilities to protect personnel, equipment, and inventory from hazards present in the workplace. Protective Guarding items range from fixed objects installed around articulating equipment, machinery, or material storage areas such as safety fence, netting, guard rail, and bollards to specialized switches designed to stop machine operation as well as safeguarding through visual or auditory aids.
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Protecting Pedestrians and Infrastructure from facility collisions.
A brand new BWU6 fulfilment centre in Sydney needed a solid barrier to protect pedestrians, equipment and infrastructure from forklift collisions. The distribution centre had several intersecting traffic streams. This made the risk of collisions very high. Boplan's safety expertise was called upon. Boplan's partner - NPSG Australia - installed various safety solutions such as the TB 400 PLUS, a robust collision protection system with handrails that not only protects against collisions but also guides pedestrians.
Modexpress aimed to enhance safety in its warehouse by addressing the critical need to separate pedestrian traffic from forklift operations. The dynamic nature of warehouse environments, with both employees on foot and vehicles in motion, posed significant risks of accidents and collisions. To mitigate these risks, Boplan® installed robust safety barriers with integrated handrails at strategic locations throughout the facility. These barriers not only create clear physical separations between pedestrian walkways and forklift zones but also improve visibility and guidance for workers, ensuring safer navigation within the warehouse. By implementing these measures, Modexpress has taken a proactive step toward reducing incidents, improving operational efficiency, and fostering a safer working environment for all its employees.
Fahrenheit Logistics Netherlands BV, a leading distribution company and part of the Famalco Group, required robust, durable and visually appealing safety solutions to protect both employees and infrastructure in their new distribution centre from intensive forklift traffic. Boplan delivered and installed various protection products, including bollards, safety barriers, and kick rails, which make a significant contribution to the safety and efficiency of the working environment.
The case study explains how Boplan provided polymer ( plastic ) guard rails, hand rails, traffic barriers and other safety products from the Flex Impact by Boplan product line to protect the infrastructure and people in a new distribution center. Boplan manufatures the original polymer barrier system. Polymer guard rails have a memory, are flexible and thus return to their original shape after impact. This highly reduces replacements, paint jobs and concrete repairs which are associated with traditional steel products.
