NuVech AirBar aids safe working in live lane
Safety equipment specialist NuVech has created the AirBar – a vehicle-mounted retractable safety device aimed at providing drivers and operatives with a safer working area when working in the live lane. Before exiting the vehicle (and if using the nearside door to exit is not possible), the AirBars can be deployed, allowing the driver to egress the cab into a safer working zone.
“Drivers using our customers’ vehicles fitted with the AirBar system have recorded zero contact with the AirBar from any passing vehicle or road user,” said NuVech.
“This gives well over two feet of space for the driver to work in. Nothing but pre-placed signs can come close to those statistics, but the key feature of the AirBar is that the driver does not have to put themselves at risk to erect a sign in order to make their role safer, merely flick a switch.
“A very positive by-product of the system’s deployment is that the AirBar effectively doubles the viewed width of any vehicle it is fitted to, so approaching drivers slow down or move over (usually both), due to the visual impact.
“The system uses a flexible membrane with integrated LED lighting which is inflated using a very low pressure to be rigid, but collapsible in the event of any incident. The AirBar is totally damage-free if struck and can be walked through if the driver must pass.
“The AirBar can be installed on any vehicle type involved in live lane or close proximity working with the sole purpose of protecting drivers in these high-risk environments.”
Systems are available to cover all truck types and sizes.
