RARELY FILLED

However, Water Filled Barriers have many more problems for deployment. The primary issue in the use of water filled barriers is that the water is rarely filled. Without the water, a water filled barrier is no longer a barrier. Without water, Water Filled Barriers are very expensive traffic cones. Deployment of waterfilled barriers without filling is a too-common, dangerous practice that gives road workers a false sense of security.

When deployed correctly a Water Filled Barrier has a large dynamic deflection, and while appearing large and heavy, offer little protection to a worker. These barriers are down rated in speed from 70kph to 50kph work zones as a way to limit their use in an attempt to reduce the risk of worker injury either through speed or the failure to fill with water. A water filled barrier without water does not provide protection at any speed.

URBAN & ARTERIAL ROAD CONSTRUCTION SITES

Today’s lower speed (50-70kph, 30-45mph) road construction sites use a variety of solutions to improve the safety for construction workers and motorists travelling through these traffic disruptions. These sites can be inner city urban roads, arterial roads, building construction sites and urban and suburban surface rail project construction.

Some of the safety ‘solutions’ deployed are simply traffic cones and barrels. They are very low cost solutions, but do not provide positive protection for anyone involved in the construction sites.

THE DEFENDER 70™

The Defender 70™ is a MASH Test Level 2, free standing temporary steel barrier that is 3.9m in length. The Defender 70™ includes a removable concrete-filled, steel ballast box that improves deflection performance over plastic water filled barriers by 50%. Just like water filled they are free standing. Unlike water filled they are a barrier from the time of deployment.

The Defender 70™ barrier system is fully compliant with upcoming national standard that require terminal transitions to be tested, and as proven on the test track, the Defender 70™ redirects from barrier 1. This means that when a Defender 70™ system is designed and deployed as part of your roadworks you are using a system that is fully tested and compliant from the beginning to the end.

NO DELAY WITH THE DEFENDER 70™

It is true that you cannot carry as many Defender 70™ on a truck as you can empty waterfilled barriers; however Defender 70™ offers significant ongoing site savings and are much faster to move as your work site moves because it is not necessary to wait for the water to be emptied and then to be refilled. When you move Defender 70™ you can be back at work almost immediately.

Any traffic switch or site move, when using water filled requires the decanting of all of the water, moveing the barriers, redeploying and refilling. This is a huge cost in site time and safety. A traffic switch or site move is much simpler when using Defender 70™. All you have to do is move the barriers to the desired location. The Defender 70™ is simple. On return to the depot, there is no requirement for refill, leak check or repair. Defender 70™ can be stacked, ready to go the next site.

Every contractor on an every job site is under budgetary and time constraints. There is a need to save time and money without compromising safety. The Defender 70™ is the only fully tested free standing barrier system available today that removes ongoing cost for maintenance, and reduces the cost associated with the wasted time and wages on site while you wait for barrier to be filled.

The Defender 70™ offers long term affordable safety.