Reducing the risk to RCV loaders
FCC Environment is a ten-year partner of SiteZone Safety and recently requested additional level of safety for bin lifts when used in automatic mode on Refuse Collections Vehicles (RCV).
Nigel Adams, technical director at SiteZone Safety, who developed the product said, “We were able to take our core product, proximity warning systems, and develop this to be suitable for RCVs. We create a zone around the bin lift and all operators wear a tag. When they’re loading the bin, if they lean in or stay in the zone the lift will not complete reducing potential risk to the operator.”
FCC Environment had two critical success factors – reduction of risk and no impact on completion of collection rounds. Both of which have been achieved. Data from the live collection rounds has shown us a 90-98% improvement in behaviours (from pre-intervention rates), proving that operators have adjusted the way they load to be safer. There was also minimal impact on collection rounds – they completed on time.
FCC has committed to rolling out the SiteZone RCV Smart Loader onto their existing fleet of Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) on a contract by contract basis, and including it as a part of their specification for new RCV orders / tenders.
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