What Is Danger Zone?

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Danger Zones

What is Danger Zone?

Danger Zones are more common then we think, we tend not notice them, but yet we instinctively now they are there, for example “In a heated argument a person who is in your face, may cause you to feel threatened”. The reason you feel threatened is that the person has crossed into your personal space by being so close or simple he is in your “Danger Zone” around you.

Another term for “Danger Zone” is “In the line of fire” for example we teach our children not to walk in front of a bus that’s in service. The reason for this is if the bus pulls away the driver cannot see a small child directly in front of the bus, i.e. the child is in the line of fire.

The glass industry has many danger zones where it is perfectly safe provided we keep clear in case the “unexpected happens”, these danger zones tend to be around equipment or devices that when in motion you need to stand clear; not in the “line of fire”.

Some common examples are

•  Fork Lift Trucks:- When an FLT is in motion, picking or dropping a load there is a danger zone or cycle all around the truck that you do not stand in as there is a likelihood you would be struck by the FLT, if the unexpected happened you would not be in the line of fire

•  Revering Delivery Lorry:- When reversing into bays or yards the danger zone are at the sides and the rear of the vehicle when in motion, the faster the lorry reverses the bigger the danger zone, If the unexpected happened you are not in the line of fire.

•  Operating Grabs:- When grabbing glass with a “grab” in racks, at the point when the grab is taking the load onto the grab and in motion you need to stand at 45o deg i.e. neither directly in front of the glass in case the grab “kicks out” or directly at the side of the glass in case your struck by “vented glass”, If the unexpected happened you are not in the line of fire

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That you demonstrate you want”.