Improving Worker Safety with Wireless All-Stop Systems at Landfill and Transfer Stations
A large national waste management company provides solid waste collection and disposal services, recycling and resource recovery to commercial and residential customers. It operates landfills, transfer stations and compost facilities across North America to handle waste while responsibly minimizing environmental impact.
The company utilizes mobile equipment, such as loaders, excavators, work trucks and tippers, within its sites to manage and move waste. In addition to the machine operators, it also has flaggers who direct the flow of traffic in the landfill. With the number of people moving around on the site, safety is a critical part of the operation.
Increase Safety with an All-Stop System
The company deploys a wireless All-Stop system across its landfills to improve safety. This system consists of handheld transmitters carried by the flaggers and machine-mounted transceivers that send out an alert to stop all moving equipment in the event an unsafe situation is observed. This wireless signal activates lights and sirens in all equipment, immediately notifying the workers to stop and power down their machines until the unsafe situation is resolved.
The All-Stop command can be initiated by any personnel, whether on the ground, in mobile equipment or operating a tipper, thus providing full communication across a widespread area. Once the problem is resolved, releasing the stop button on the initiating transmitter or transceiver ends the alert. The lights and sirens are disabled, and workers can resume normal operations.
The system’s convenience and simplicity provide a solution to reinforce the safety of its workers.
Safety-First Remote Control Solutions
A long-range BWI Eagle XLT system operating at 900 MHz is used for landfills. It consists of handheld transmitters, vehicle-mounted transceivers, and tipper-mounted transceivers, each equipped with a latching stop button that sends a wireless signal to activate sirens and strobe lights for audible and visual alerts. Additional receivers can be mounted on a pole or other structure to receive alerts in different areas if needed.
A short-range BWI Eagle SR-Plus system operating at 2.4 GHz is used for transfer and compost stations. It consists of handheld transmitters and vehicle-mounted transceivers, each equipped with a latching stop button that sends a wireless signal to activate sirens and strobe lights for audible and visual alerts. Additional receivers can be mounted on a pole or other structure to receive alerts in other areas if needed.