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The safety of your staff is your top priority, but operational challenges make it hard to manage everything. That’s where SiteZone comes in. We can help you eliminate plant pedestrian collisions on your site.

See why 230 sites across the UK are trusting SiteZone for their plant pedestrian safety.

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The risk is real

Being struck by a moving vehicle is the second highest cause of fatal accidents at work with 25 people not going home because of a collision with a moving vehicle. At SiteZone we’re committed to helping bring that number to zero. But it’s not only fatalities we want to stop. There were over 1,200 non-fatal injuries caused by moving vehicles, and these are often life changing not just for the people involved, but their families too.

Adding an extra level of safety with a proximity warning system gives drivers and pedestrians advance warning of the risk of a collision, saving lives in your workplace.

How does the SiteZone proximity alert system work?

The SiteZone Proximity Warning System produces a detection zone around a vehicle, machine, or a restricted area.

When the detection zone is breached by someone wearing a SiteZone tag the machine operator is alerted and can take action. But we’re not just relying on the driver to act. The pedestrian gets an individual alert through a strong vibration of the tag, ensuring they take responsibility for their safety when moving around the site.

It’s more than a real-time warning. The insights you get from the data about plant pedestrian near misses allows you to improve behaviours for a safer site in the long term.

Want to know if this is the right pedestrian detection system for your site?

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Suez

“We’ve embedded SiteZone into our safe systems of work at SUEZ. All staff and visitors get a tag and training prior to entering the facility. The tag is an essential part of PPE just like hard hats, boots, glasses, gloves, and hi-vis clothing. The system is easy to work with and help the operators to avoid any potential risky situations. It also makes people walking around our machines much more aware of the potential danger of getting too close to moving plant.”

Fred Stinchombe
Production Operations Manager | SUEZ Avonmouth

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Everyone is warned

By using a wearable proximity sensor, you create a culture of awareness of plant pedestrian safety.

The person entering the vehicle’s exclusion zone gets an individual alert forcing them to take responsibility for their safety and move away from the vehicle. Combine this with the proximity alarm and in-cab display for the driver and you have a ‘belts and braces’ early warning system where everyone is aware of the risk. 

Know what’s happening on your site and act on it

Data’s a vital part of what we do for you. It tells you what is happening on your site between people and vehicles. You can see where, when, how often, and who gets too close to mobile plant.  And customers tell us the dashboard and weekly reports immediately show you the key data you need. 

Chris Beddoes MCGI CMIOSH AIEMA, Business Manager for Stop'N'Go used the system at SUEZ and commented:

“The analytical data platform is an exceptional risk management tool from which improvements can be tracked. The information contained within the platform is anonymised (based on tag ID) and supported development of a strong, positive, safety culture changing behaviours to make a safer site.”

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See round corners and blind spots

Did you know that the blind spot in front of a loading shovel with a raised bucket can be as far as 30m? And this poor visibility was highlighted by the HSE in their safety notice in 2021 with a recent £250k fine given to a company where a worker was knocked over directly in front of the bucket of a loading shovel on his first day of work.

With a proximity warning system there are no blind spots. Our system doesn’t need to the see the person to detect them like a camera. Whether someone is in front of a loading shovel, walking out from behind a pile of waste or pallets or in a driver’s blind spot, they’re detected.

Only detecting when there is a risk

Every site is different and complex. You’ll have multiple operations going on in the same space. Sometimes vehicles are parked up waiting to do their next job and you’ll often need to talk to a driver about their work.

This is where SmartBubble can support the effectiveness of the proximity warning system.

By automatically reducing the size of the detection zone when the vehicle is in a safe state, either Deadman handle engaged or vehicle stationary, you can walk by or talk to the driver without being detected, ensuring alerts are only happening when needed.

SmartBubble is provided free of charge on excavators and material handlers that have a deadman handle.

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Safe Zones

Following the hierarchy of control and where possible you'll have created segregated walkways and safe zones.

But how do you stop detection of people when they are in these safe areas?

We can mask these walkways and other areas so that people are only detected when they’re at risk.

Temporary and hire plant

Your operations are fluid and the vehicles you operate often change. Sorting out last minute breakdowns and hire vehicles is another headache for your operations teams!

To make sure you have cover for temporary or hire vehicles we have a range of portable proximity warning systems from the SiteZone QuickFit to the battery powered SiteZone iNstant. 

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Taking pedestrian safety to the next level 

In 2025 we’ve taken proximity warning systems to the next level. We want you to get the best value you can from the system installed on your vehicles, or the tags your staff wear. So, we’re making them do more for you.

Want to control unauthorised access? Why not install a tag activated gate.

Need additional warnings for exclusion zones or blind corners? Our range of signs can be activated by the vehicle to provide additional visual and audible warnings.

Unmanned weighbridge? We can integrate with the software on the weighbridge to log tag numbers by driver.

See how proximity warning works

 

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