December 2006
Industrial safety specialist Castell Iso-lok has signed a premier distribution agreement with Brady, making it the only key distributor to focus solely on lock-out/tag-out equipment.
The agreement means that Castell Iso-lok’s established range of lock-out/tag-out equipment will be extended to include Brady’s products. The two companies will also share new product development resources and combine their market and product expertise to mutually grow their businesses.
Tim Hughes, Castell Iso-lok’s UK Sales Manager, remarked, ‘The agreement with Brady is a big step forward for the company, as it will enable us to increase our presence in the market and subsequently increase sales.’
A brochure detailing the new product range will be in circulation within the next three months, and the company website will be updated to reflect the change.
For more information on all of the company’s products and services, please visit the website at www.isolok.co.uk
Pictured above: Tim Hughes (UK Sales Manager) and Tim Whelan (Managing Director) of Castell Safety International Ltd. with representatives of Brady Corporation.
December 2006
Frozen food maker Birds Eye, formerly part of Unilever, has chosen Castell’s Salvo to protect warehouse operatives at its Hull factory from the threat of unscheduled trailer departure.
Having recognised that its existing system of traffic lights and manual powering up of loading bays by drivers failed to physically prevent a driver from leaving a bay prematurely, Birds Eye went straight to Castell for a safer alternative.
“We identified Salvo as a fail-safe system which was effectively one step up from our existing one”, comments Mick Cahill, Birds Eye’s Safety and Environmental Manager, “and the transfer to the new system has gone as smooth as silk.”
Once Salvo had been installed on all ten bays, warehouse staff were pleased to find that operating procedures remained unchanged. “Salvo’s not made a jot of difference to them”, continues Mick, “except that it’s much safer and now provides a physical block to ‘drive-aways’. A lot of the drivers had already seen it at other sites, so they took to it quite happily.”
Having reversed their trailer up to the appropriate loading bay, drivers collect a Salvo Susie lock from a storage cabinet next to the bay door and fit it to the emergency airline coupling. This action releases the uniquely-coded key from the end of the unit, which drivers then insert into an electrical switch located next to the cabinet. By turning the key drivers power up the bay, change the external traffic lights to red and send the internal lights to green. Loaders now know that it is safe to begin loading or unloading and depress the button on the internal switch to raise the bay door.
