A-SAFE recommends fitness products to protect workplaces after the holidays and increase productivity in the new year. First, traffic management programs can reduce collisions and costs by properly managing vehicle and pedestrian areas. Second, safety barriers guide workers efficiently while protecting structures. Third, impact-absorbing barriers maintain structural integrity when hit by vehicles. Prior clients like Gatwick Airport reported significant cost savings after installing A-SAFE's world-class barrier system.

1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 2015
Advice & Products
FITNESS FOR FACTORIES
Protect your workplace from post-Christmas lethargy with A-SAFE’s
maximum performance products
How did you feel when you opened your factory doors after returning from the
Christmas break?
Revived and rejuvenated? Perky and prepared for the New Year? Or maybe just a
little flabby and fuzzy round the edges.
It’s all too easy to go back to work after the seasonal festivities suffering from the
one-turkey-sandwich-too-many blues; and workplaces, like people, can also suffer
from a post-Christmas comedown. They can sag a little, lose a bit of their gleam, be
a little reluctant to rev-up and restart.
In fact, the New Year condition of your workplace will set the tone for overall
productivity and efficiency in 2015. Therefore, in the same way that January gyms
are full of enthusiastic new members working on their newly-expanded waistlines,
the New Year is the perfect time to get your workplace fit, active and in-shape for
the business demands of the coming year.
First: lose the excess.
Too many workplaces suffer from unfit management of vehicles and pedestrians.
Points where vehicles and pedestrians cross over should be reduced to a minimum
and, where these crossover points are unavoidable, properly managed with
barriers, gates and signage. It’s time to shape-up and shed the excess with a fully fit
traffic management programme - and greatly reduce the chances of collisions and
subsequent downtime, damage and associated costs.
Second: get lean and mean.
Just like a personal trainer will ensure you’re getting the most out of gym
equipment and using it in the most efficient way, responsible workplace managers
will know that modern Health & Safety practices do not hinder efficiency but, over

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time, boost it. A world-class barrier system will not just protect vehicles, structures
and pedestrians, it will also act as guide and pathway to direct and lead personnel
safely around the workplace, streamlining efficiency in the process.
Third: add some bulk.
Hand Rails and Pedestrian Barriers will look after some traffic management
concerns, but it is inevitable that collisions will still occur on workplace structures.
A rogue forklift driver can over time make repeated impacts on your workplace’s
vital structures and these can seriously challenge the structural integrity of a
whole building. When A-SAFE’s heavy duty barriers flex their muscles, it’s not
through vanity. The barriers’ strong, flexible, absorbent natures dissipate impact
forces, ensuring they remain intact, the floor undamaged and vital structures
untouched. How’s that for brawn with brains?
Last: reap the rewards.
No fitness routine is complete until you start to enjoy the time between workouts.
In a busy workplace a world class barrier system will offer a huge return in
investment over a relatively short period of time. Gatwick Airport used to report
over £100,000 worth of repair costs to their luggage handling areas per year. After
installing A-SAFE barriers, they reported a reduction in repair, maintenance and
replacement costs to just £3,000 over a five-year period.
Before your factory starts to flag, shape-up with the best performing products for
protection, efficiency and responsible management. The return on investment
benefits are long-term and the health and fitness bonuses can be felt immediately.
A-SAFE are the inventors and manufacturers of fixed polymer safety barriers;
used around the world to offer unbeatable, money-saving protection for
buildings, personnel and equipment – for more information call 01422
331133, email sales@asafe.com or visit asafe.com
ENDS
NOTES TO EDITORS:
1. A-SAFE is the inventor and manufacturer of the world’s first fixed, polymer safety barrier
system, used in warehouses, car parks, factories, airports and other workplaces across
the world.
2. Made from a patented material called Memaplex, A-SAFE barriers absorb and dissipate
impacts from vehicles or hardware, protecting structures, personnel and machinery and
creating huge cost savings in maintenance, replacement products and down-time.

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3. A-SAFE rigorously test their products using an in-house Research & Development team
and are independently verified by TÜV.
4. A-SAFE clients include Nestlé, Coca-Cola, BMW, 3M, Heathrow Airport, Unilever and
Jaguar-Land Rover.
5. The company was formed in Halifax, UK in 1984 and now has offices and resellers in
over 30 countries, including Germany, France, USA, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia and
Australia.
6. A-SAFE won the Queens Award for International Trade in 2014.
7. For further information contact Matt Callard at matthewc@asafe.com / 01422 261605,
or visit www.asafe.com.