Salvo improves loading bay safety for Vitacress 22 March 2010

Packaged salads producer Vitacress says that Castell's drive-away prevention system Salvo is working to protect warehouse staff at its Amesbury facility.

Following a couple of incidents in which drivers departed from loading bays with loaders still inside the trailer, Bill Cant, intake supervisor at Amesbury, says that management decided that it needed a better system.

Until then, drivers handed over their keys and were asked to obey traffic lights, but neither measure proved foolproof.

Salvo was trialled and, after meeting expectations, was installed on five loading bays. There have been no recorded drive-aways since installation.

"The loaders rate it," says Cant. "They know that drivers can't drive off while the door remains open."

Once a drivers haves reversed up to the loading bay, they collect a Salvo lock from the office storage box, fit it to the emergency airline coupling and remove the key, explains Cant.

The trailer is then immobilised, and the key is then inserted into a control box next to the bay door and turned. This causes amber beacons to flash inside the bay and allows the door to be opened and the dock leveller positioned.

The key remains trapped in the control box while the door is open. Once loading or unloading is complete, the door is closed, the key released from the control box and the Salvo removed from the airline coupling.

Author
Brian Tinham

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