Thursday, July 17, 2008

Barriers, guard rails, radiant barriers and barricade corner guards

ROAD SAFETY PRODUCTS

“Drive Slowly: Someone Is Waiting For You At Home”- the slogan is very old for people nowadays; they just follow their own rules, and drive rashly. Road safety measures and products are made so as to improve the driving conditions and offer smooth flow of traffic. The road safeties measures help provide proper directions to traffic even if the signals due to some reasons are not working properly.

With the increasing number of vehicles on the roads, road safety has become one of the major concerns of the countries around the globe. “Drive Slowly: Someone Is Waiting For You At Home”- the slogan is very old for people nowadays; they just follow their own rules, and drive rashly.

One should drive sensibly to protect oneself and others from the harms of the accident. Various accidents take place due to driver’s fault and some due to bad conditions of roads, broken guardrail, defective signals etc. To prevent the accidents from occurring on the roads, various road safety measures and products are used. These road safety measures and products are made so as to improve the driving conditions and offer smooth flow of traffic. The road safety measures help provide proper directions to traffic even if the signals due to some reasons are not working properly.

These products can be briefly divided according to their usage, for example,
Road Safety Barriers: These include guardrails, wire rope safety barriers, and crash cushions. These products are generally used on the roadside to prevent any vehicle fall down the elevated road.

Motor Cyclist Barriers: These products are specially designed by any guardrail manufacturer. These are usually made up of plastic and include stack cushions, ingal rule post and others.
Guideposts: These products are used for smooth running of traffic; they include night star guidepost, rubber lane divider, reflective lane, markers, rebound able lane divider, mini guard steel barrier. All the above products are made either of plastic and metallic substances. The metallic products are fixed on the road itself for making lanes; they reflect light due to which the lane can be seen even from a far distance.

Work zone and Traffic Control: Guardrail suppliers also supply a wide range of work zone products. These include T-top bollards, traffic cones, traffic barricades, light guardrails TRACC etc. The products are made of high quality materials and are tested to standards. These use UV stabilizers and are unaffected by whether conditions. They contain heavy base to attain proper stability.

Car park and industrial products: Speed bumps, pivot bollards, and steel bollards come under this category of road safety products. Ideal for hospitals, schools, colleges’ etc, speed bumps are made of pre-colored sturdy plastic. These are highly resistant to heavy impacts and high temperature conditions. As studded with reflectors on both sides, these ensure their better visibility to the driver during night hours.
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