Warehouse safety range on show at Health & Safety North

Salvo prevents articulated trailers from departing prematurely from loading bays, and reduces dependency on written procedures. Shunters fit the Salvo Susie lock to the trailer’s exposed emergency airline, which immobilises the trailer and releases a key from the end of the Susie. Shunters then insert the key into the control panel unit next to the bay door and turn it to power up the bay. While the bay door is open, the key remains trapped in the control panel and therefore the trailer cannot be moved.

The HSE booklet ‘Warehousing and storage: A guide to health and safety’ recommends interlocks as a safe system of work to combat drive-aways. Salvo also features as an example of a safe system of work in the Freight Transport Association’s ‘Loading dock safety guide’, produced in conjunction with the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health.

Salvo DockMonitor is a data-gathering and analysis device, designed to display overall site performance or individual dock statistics.