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Bubble evolution When we first started the SiteZone journey, we also launched an accompanying safety campaign called ‘Don’t burst the bubble’ (DBB).  It was designed to inform at-risk personnel, health & safety and site managers about work-related collision dangers and raise their awareness.  The basic premise of the campaign was that every working vehicle or plant has a d ...

SiteZone Safety wins coveted innovation award thanks to its telematics system, OverSite, which records plant-personnel interaction data and can be viewed in real time to help improve safety benchmarking.  The SiteZone team is delighted to be named a winner in the Letsrecycle Live - Excellence in Innovation Awards, 2019.  The awards, which are held in conjunction with the Lets ...

There were whispers afoot when Brexit was just an embryonic idea – if it went through, everything would all come tumbling down. There were fears that the property market would crash, and it was looking rather gloomy for the construction industry – along with everyone else. Now the whispers appear to be different. Even though there was a scary moment of housebuilder share plung ...

By improving anti-collision safety practices, employees work-related health can improve for the better It’s no longer taboo to discuss the effects of mental illness, or stress on a person’s health.  Stress at work has become one of the top reasons for absenteeism in the work place, across various sectors.  Statistics from the 2018 Cigna 360° Survey show that 84 percent of work ...

Gary Escott, Director of SiteZone Safety, explains how to get the best out of a proximity warning system for optimised effectiveness in keeping workers safe from vehicle collision risk on site. Safety professionals have worked very hard to create safe systems of work to keep workers safe in the course of doing their jobs. The regulations and practices that have evolved are eff ...

Listen and learn I believe that success with service or product  provision is to give the customer what they need to help run a successful business, and show them how it works best for them.  The SiteZone team does its best to work to those rules, especially since the SiteZone system has become more widely used and evolved into other associated products. You’ve really got to ...

The SiteZone proximity warning system (PWS), was never intended to replace existing safety protocols or methodology.  It was supposed to be an addition – a complementary system to enhance what existed.  That’s how SiteZone still works today – using RFID (radio frequency identification) to warn vehicle operators and pedestrians of a potential collision risk. PWS continues to be ...

The relationship between feeling good and working well I have no doubt that there’s a strong correlation between your health and how you work. Especially when it comes to mental well-being at work – stress can be a distraction, and a real danger if you work in a high-risk industry. Work-related mental health is being discussed in the open now – the dialogue has begun to help ...

Proximity warning specialist SiteZone Safety hires new business development executive as the business plans next phase of growth.

Danger that doesn’t move Our safety focus has always been on preventing collisions between workers and plant vehicles. Construction sites and depots can be very dangerous places due to a lot of activity, as people, machinery and vehicles move around in close proximity to one another. Being lulled into a false sense of security about how close one is to machinery, coupled with ...