2008 Best Practice Innovation Award Winner

Innovation: Quick-Change Moveable Barriers (QMB)
Company Name: Milton Precast

The QMB is a precast temporary barrier system designed to allow safe, rapid lane changes even at peak traffic flows. The basic principle is that the units are able to be moved in an unbroken chain, by a bespoke vehicle, at speeds of up to 10mph, thus allowing rapid change in the work areas. The system comprises a linked “chain” of reactive precast concrete tension barrier units, which can be slightly raised from the road and moved across the carriageway by the Transfer Vehicle, allowing lane priority changes during road works and Traffic Tidal Flows.

Innovation: Hole Cover
Company Name: Beresfords Flooring

Beresfords Hole Cover is for use with newly installed precast flooring units, supplied with preformed service holes. These pre-formed service holes pose a significant hazard to site operatives, as there is a risk of ankles being broken or sprained and shins badly cut or bruised. The present common practice is to place a board over the holes, however these are often not fixed and are easily dislodged. To provide secured boarding is a relatively time consuming process and the board itself poses a trip hazard. Beresford’s Flooring Hole Cover is a thin bright yellow anti-slip plastic board, which grips into the hole and doesn’t dislodge and are highly visible.

Innovation: SlingSafe
Company Name: PCE

SlingSafe is a safety platform and boom system devised for loading and offloading items from open delivery vehicles. SlingSafe features two rotating booms which can be extended over any large, open delivery vehicle. Both booms can be adjusted for height and length to cater for all loads and situations. Personnel are secured to the booms via a pulley system and fail-safe fall arrest device – much like an inertia reel seatbelt– which automatically locks and prevents a fall, should the wearer slip or stumble during loading or unloading operations. A secondary safety cord can be adjusted personally by the operative to ensure that the boom to which they are attached, follows them as they move about the vehicle.