The UK now enforces strict Health & safety Laws to protect all of us, and as an employer you certainly have a duty to protect all your employees especially in the current climate of `where there is a blame there is a claim` an employer needs to install some effective protection in and around the premises for the safety of the employees and his own piece of mind. Armco Barrier is now recognized throughout the UK. It is a steel corrugated crash barrier .It was initially used along the many highways around the UK to protect the drivers and their passengers from such things as entering carriageway going in the opposite direction or the vehicle leaving the road and falling down an embankment. Due to its massive success the Armco barrier is now used around car parks loading bays, and inside and outside of buildings.

More and more places are having a crash barrier fitted they are especially becoming more common on company car parks. Employers are seeing them as a cost effective investment that not only protects all the employers but for reassurance for themselves that they can keep the workers and the moving vehicles separate so there will hopefully not be any negligence claims being brought upon them. If you take a look at many industrial estates you will see that each unit has a crash barrier all the way around the building ,firstly to separate the walkway from the car park and also to protect the fabric of the building from moving vehicles such as fork lift trucks. Health & Safety is now paramount in the UK and a Crash Barrier carefully positioned in key areas can provide a company with piece of mind and it also shows employees that the company they work for do care for their staff.

Crash Barrier Protection should be used in all situations when you have moving vehicles either inside or outside a building . They can be made to measure and built in keeping with the surroundings whilst still providing maximum protection for pedestrians and your building. It can be very costly if a vehicle is accidentally driven into a part of the building. It can cause structural damage resulting in the building being off limits for some time until the damage is fixed. It is therefore very cost effective to have Crash Barrier Protection. Expert advice from a reputable company that is fully in touch with the UK Health & safety Laws should be sort before having barriers installed.

It was not until there was a serious accident and a massive compensation payout did my previous employer think of health and Safety in the work Place and have Warehouse Barriers fitted. It was a very old warehouse that we were trying to modernize but at the same time it was a working warehouse because it was Christmas time and the warehouse was a distributor of cards and gifts, so some things had to take a back burner until after the Christmas rush. Well so they thought . It was a December evening and everybody was tired but rushing to get the orders out on time . Many of the workers had done a ten hour shift. The fork Lift driver was reversing out of one of the picking isle. Unfortunately, he did not see the guy sweeping up and he hit him and knocked him to the floor and carried on reversing. It was not until another colleague saw him and shouted out that he actually realized and stop the fork lift truck. Our colleague was rushed to hospital and has never been back to work since. The company was visited by many Officials and it was recommended warehouse barriers were installed throughout the place immediately.

The locals near my sisters shop were delighted when she had a cash machine installed the shop because the nearest bank was miles away . Unfortunately it was not all good news as the shop had many attempted burglaries She was not prepared the day the Police knocked on her door in the middle of the night to tell her that the shop had been ram raided and they had uses a fork lift truck hoping to take away with them the cash machine that had been filled up just that day. Well they didn`t succeed in taking the Cash machine but the damage was so immense that the shop had to be closed for three months as even the building had become unsafe. The first thing she did for the refurbishment was to have Bollards fitted right across the front of the shop and I am happy to say the ram raid has not been repeated. The Bollards have added extra security to the premises and peace of mind for my sister.