Tailored solutions were installed at Volvo

A-SAFE Inc. has installed almost a mile (1.5 km) of safety barriers at a new Volvo facility in Ridgeville, South Carolina, where it will eventually employ more than 4,000 people.

A full suite of safety products was installed, including traffic strength barriers, column protection and pedestrian guarding.

Volvo wanted to install safety systems that offered premium protection for its employees, infrastructure and assets, with a particular focus on areas with higher amounts of traffic. The vehicle assembly area experiences the greatest volume of traffic, as thousands of individual parts go into making each car. All these components need to be transported, stored, picked and transferred to the assembly lines to be fitted to the chassis as they travel along the assembly line.

A-SAFE CEO Paul Barlow says the solution was installed after a thorough safety survey and has delivered a series of benefits including optimised traffic flow around the site, together with "premium protection for pedestrians and infrastructure".

He adds that while his company gets two to three orders on this scale every year, "this one stood out ... because Volvo is a world-renowned safety-centric brand and we aspire to similar goals".