Consider installing vehicle barriers if your business is located near busy roads or in a high-traffic area. They can help keep your premises safe from both vehicles and criminals.
There are many barriers, so you’ll need to select the right one. Passive vehicle barriers are typically the best choice for your project.
Increased Safety
Vehicular Barriers are a great way to prevent accidents, especially when vehicle traffic is high. They are used everywhere, from school zones to private car parks.
They can also be installed on construction sites to protect workers from vehicles that might otherwise cause damage. They are an affordable solution that can be installed in just fifteen minutes and have long-term durability.
Another benefit of installing vehicular barriers is that they can also help with the safety of pedestrians. In extensive industrial facilities, forklifts and other material-handling vehicles can harm employees on foot.
If a person on foot is struck by a vehicle, the forces from the impact can cause significant injuries to the individual. This is why it’s essential to ensure that barriers protect any workspaces in a plant.
Often, these barriers are anchored to the ground with steel pins driven into the ground. They are very effective but must provide the flexibility many other obstacles offer.
Reduced Risk of Accidents
One of the main advantages of installing vehicle barriers is that they can prevent accidents from occurring. This is because they are designed to reduce the impact of an accident and divert traffic away from dangerous roadside obstacles such as trees, poles, steep dams, and bridges.
Typically, these barriers are made up of high-tension cable systems. When a vehicle hits them, the cables detach from the posts and absorb the energy of a crash. This redirects the impacting vehicle along the median.
Maintenance crews can repair the section quickly and safely when a barrier is damaged, reducing the risk of a collision. This also helps to keep costs low.
In addition, these barriers are designed to help prevent accidents from occurring, which can save lives and minimize the damage that can be caused. They also provide a safe place for guard-force personnel to perform their duties, preventing the need for them to enter the traffic lane.
While barriers are designed to be safer than obstacles, they can still cause injury or death to drivers and occupants of vehicles if they are not properly maintained. This is why it is essential to ensure they are inspected and kept in good condition.
Enhanced Security
Protecting a stadium, campus, data center, or high-security facility requires the most substantial possible vehicle security barriers. The key to these barriers’ effectiveness is their ability to deflect the force of a hostile vehicle that hits them.
Crash-rated fences are a great solution to add a layer of vehicle-based protection for your perimeter fence. They are designed to stop vehicles up to 15,000 lbs traveling at 50 mph, and they come in various configurations to suit your site’s security needs.
Active barrier solutions are also excellent when you want to control access points into your property. They can be deployed to block unauthorized vehicles, and they can also retract to prevent an attack.
In many cases, they require little maintenance to keep them effective for years to come. For example, a crash-rated bollard or concrete wall will protect property from vehicle attacks for decades without any care.
Reduced Maintenance Costs
Whether it’s an airport, a data center, or a military base, vehicle barriers are a critical security solution. They limit access to sensitive areas only authorized personnel can enter, preventing unwanted vehicles from entering and damaging your facility.
In addition to improving safety and security, vehicle barriers have several other advantages. One of the most important is that they can reduce maintenance costs.
The main types of barriers are active and passive. Activated walls rise and lower to stop traffic.
On the other hand, passive barrier systems aren’t active at all – they’re immovable until they are destroyed. This makes them a good choice for security as they don’t pose the same risk as an active system.
Both active and passive barriers are available in various models and materials, each with pros and cons. For example, electric fences are less expensive upfront and require less maintenance than hydraulic wedges. However, hydraulic barriers are more reliable and can last many years if properly maintained.
Reduced Waste
Vehicular barriers are a great way to reduce the waste produced during the transportation of vehicles. Ford, for example, is working on cutting the amount of waste it sends to landfill by 40 percent per vehicle by 2016 as part of its new five-year global waste reduction strategy.
Many highways and racetracks are constructed with curbs and medians to help direct and contain vehicles that lose control. These are generally massive concrete walls formed in place or prefabricated in interlocking modules and often lifted into position with cranes.
Conventional rubber barriers typically consist of stacks of discarded automobile tires assembled in various configurations to absorb the impact of collisions. However, these barriers have the disadvantage that they are unsightly and can be challenging to install.
The invention overcomes these limitations by providing a homogeneous solid rubber vehicular barrier constructed of 80 to 90 percent by-weight particles of recycled waste rubber. This is a significant consumption of what otherwise would be a troublesome waste product.
The invention can be formed simply in a mold in any desired shape, thus reducing the costs associated with manufacturing a similar barrier. The barrier also does not require using internal reinforcing wires or cages as required in conventional rubber barriers.
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