Separate people from vehicles
The pedestrian route should be physically separated. Bollards and rails give a permanent split; for a short-term arrangement a run of cones will do.
Warehouse and plant floor safety
Indoors the hazard is not speed but forklifts and people sharing one floor. The answer is to separate them, open the sight lines and stop impacts reaching the structure.
The order of the job
Open the sight lines
Aisle ends and doorways are blind spots.
A blind spot is opened by layout first: a marked stopping area before the door, a set-back stacking line at the aisle end and, where needed, a bump that cuts crossing speed.
In a dim aisle, equipment with reflective faces extends the noticing distance.
Protect the structure
A row of bollards in front of the column and the rack leg meets the impact before it reaches the structure.
A wheel stop in front of the loading door sets the approach limit, and a railing separates the pedestrian door from the vehicle area.
The most common mistake on site
The most common mistake is installing the physical separation after the damage. Repairing one column costs many times the bollards that would have protected that line for years.
The second common mistake is not checking a struck bollard. The body may look sound while the floor anchor has loosened, and a loose bollard is thrown clear at the next contact.
The third is using a product without a reflective face in a dim aisle.
Tell us these when you ask for a quote
- Floor area and number of forklifts
- Whether a pedestrian route is already defined
- Floor: concrete, epoxy or a coating
- How heavy the forklift traffic is — the choice between bollards and railings follows from it.
- What is being protected: a column corner, a rack leg or a wall end.
- Aisle width and lighting; a dim aisle needs a reflective face.
- Whether the floor is concrete or a coating — the anchor type follows from it.
- Where impacts have happened on site before; protection goes there first.
- The shift pattern and when the installation can happen; anchoring cannot be done while the warehouse is working.
With these three, the price and loading plan come in the first reply; without them we have to ask first.
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