Hills Waste Solutions champions new safety walkway

Published by

Peter Davison

Matt Nicholls, material recycling facility manager using the FHOSS Illuminated Safety Walkway System at Sands Farm, Calne

Waste management firm Hills has installed an innovative new crossing system at its material recycling facility in Calne to bolster its excellent record on workplace safety.

The FHOSS illuminated safety walkway system uses a combination of traffic lights for vehicle drivers, illuminated markers for pedestrians, and electromagnetic gates to control the flow of mobile plant and pedestrian movement around the facility.

“Mitigating the risk to pedestrians across our industry is a priority safety issue and I commend all concerned for their innovative approach to managing this risk," said Paul Elling, compliance manager for Hills Waste Solutions.

"The installation of this crossing is a clear demonstration of our commitment to avoiding accidents by separating pedestrians from moving plant.”

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According to FHOSS, ten per cent of workplace accidents in the UK involve a person being struck by a moving vehicle.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.