Continuous industry related updates
Spillard have launched their third generation Roll Over Restraint seat and harness – on the face of it not earth shattering news, but when you realise that this is probably the first Roll Over Restraint that most operators would willingly wear, its Big News The value of wearing a full harness in terms of safety […]
Optronics Camera System meets ISO13766 Earlier this year Spillard Safety Systems submitted our flat-screen colour camera system – part number OPT5600 – to the respected and internationally recognised Mira testing facility in an attempt to obtain certification for the ISO13766 (Earthmoving Machinery – EMC1999) Assigned the Mira Project Number 1011991, our camera system was to […]
With help from Peter Welsh of Spillard Safety Systems, Andrew Pearce explores ways to see behind you. REVERSING accidents kill and injure every year. The numbers are relatively small in farming compared to other industries but that’s no cue for complacency. On a much bigger scale and with far less tragic consequences, tractor drivers bang […]
Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire has supplied and installed complete safety packages on £2.5M of new Caterpillar equipment recently purchased by Wolverhampton based Stokey Plant Hire. Each package comprises a convex mirror, rear view camera system, orange strobe light, fire extinguisher and seat belt linked to an external flashing green indicator light. Stokey […]
Anyone involved in the use of construction equipment should be aware of the various regulations now controlling noise and vibration levels as well as general safety rules covering operators and site personnel. However, many of these regulations are complex and it is all too easy to overlook the many details involved. For example, let’s […]
Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire has launched its Optronics ESP System which provides an added dimension of safety to the company’s existing Preview radar and Optronics rear view camera systems. ESP integrates the two systems and, once installed on a typical piece of construction machinery such as a wheeled loader, alerts the operator […]
Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire has recently installed a ‘wireless’ camera/monitor system on a 182 tonne Cat 5130B excavator at Tarmac’s Swinden Quarry in Yorkshire. The system, which utilises the same proven components found in Spillard’s standard rear view CCTV packages, has replaced an unreliable different make set-up which enables the operator to […]
Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire has recently fitted a total of seven of its Optronics colour flat screen rear-view safety systems into mobile cranes belonging to Crane Services of Ossett in West Yorkshire. The company currently operates a fleet of 34 cranes ranging in capacity from 25 to 500 tonne and the decision […]
Since 1998, Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire has been the sole European distributor for the Mirror Lite range of convex mirrors. Mirror Lite of Michigan in the USA now dominates its home market, having originally developed convex mirrors for fitment to school buses to ensure drivers had maximum rearward visibility and then worked […]
A 100 tonne class Sennebogen 870M Special re-handling machine, recently supplied to Sussex Port Forwarding’s Shoreham facility by E.H. Hassell & Sons, has been equipped with a four camera visibility system by Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire to ensure maximum operating safety. The wheel-mounted 870M is being used to unload mainly timber at […]