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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.
ith our cast-iron SlowStop® elbow, tee, and cross-shaped tubular joints, we can easily configure custom guarding such as u-shaped brackets, safety railings, protection buffers, fences, and guardrail systems. Our flexible polycarbonate guardrail mounts to our SlowStop® bollards to create virtually unbreakable barriers.
SlowStop® Fork Protection Plates are the optimal solution for preventing fork damage beyond protective barriers. Using the same high-quality materials, you have come to expect from us, we have created fork prevention plates that can protect your employees while avoiding asset loss.
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BRANDS & PRODUCTS
• Impact Recovery Systems, Inc.®
• SlowStop Guarding Systems, LLC. ®
• Sentinel Between Car Barrier System
• SlowStop® Bollards
• One Base®
• Tuff Curb®
Impact Recovery
OmegaPost
FlexRail
IronFlex
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ProGMA A Case StudyCustomer: Airport Baggage AreaProtectionSituationThe luggage handling areas in Orlando International Airport’s Terminals A and B were originally protected by outdated,rigid guarding that had significantly deteriorated over time. This legacy system not only failed to prevent damage but alsocontributed to cracking and breaking of the surrounding 4” thick concrete on the second-floor structure.Conveyors, electrical panels, and critical infrastructure components were left vulnerable to frequent impacts, increasingmaintenance costs and safety concerns. Additionally, ineffective guarding posed risks to equipment, facility integrity, andworker safety in this high-traffic operational environment.SolutionTo address these challenges, airport officials partnered with a certified installer to replace the old system with SlowStop®rebounding guarding products from Impact Recovery. The new solution included:• 15” tall 4” single IronFlex rails to protect conveyor systems at their operating height• 42” tall 4” double IronFlex rails installed around electrical panels for elevated protection• Strategically placed 5” rebounding steel bollards to reinforce key locations and mitigate high-risk impact zonesIn total, the project involved the installation of 1,621 feet of railing in Terminal A and 1,857 feet in Terminal B. The installerstated, “Installation was straightforward and easy. Once we got a pattern down, it really moved fast. We actually finishedthe job two weeks ahead of schedule.” With the new SlowStop® system in place, the airport achieved a dramaticimprovement in facility protection and safety. The rebounding technology minimized concrete damage by absorbing anddissipating impact forces, while also delivering long-term durability and performance. The conveyor equipment supplierpraised the upgrade and expressed strong support for the enhanced safety measures. The comprehensive protectionsystem now ensures critical infrastructure is better defended reducing maintenance needs and increasing operationaluptime. Terminals A and B are now fully equipped with a modern, reliable, and efficient guarding system positioningOrlando International Airport for safer baggage operations for years to come.“Installation was straightforward and easy.Once we got a pattern down, it really moved fast.”
