What is PAS 13 - Safety barrier impact resilience about?
Each year, around 50 people are killed and more than 5,000 injured in accidents involving workplace transport in the UK. Each workplace is unique and likely to present different hazards and risks. Nevertheless a well-designed and maintained workplace with proper segregation of vehicles and people will experience fewer workplace accidents.
The most effective way of ensuring pedestrians and vehicles move safety around a workplace is to provide separate pedestrian and vehicle traffic routes and where necessary use barriers, rails and signage to prevent pedestrians crossing at dangerous places. This PAS outlines the current good practice traffic management procedures for a workplace and provides a standard for the safety barriers within them.
Who is PAS 13 - Safety barrier impact resilience for?
It is intended to be used by anyone who is:
Selecting appropriate safety barriers for their workplace to protect personnel, vehicles and structures
Applying traffic management procedures
Testing and measuring safety barrier performance
Manufacturing and distributing safety barriers
It will most likely be used in the following sectors:
Warehousing
Logistics
Airports
Car parking
Food and drink manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
Automotive manufacturing
Architecture
Construction
Engineering
Users are likely to be:
Health and safety managers
Procurement specialists
Directors
Facility managers
Project managers
Site safety leaders
Chief engineers
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