HAZARD ZONE - PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
TEMPORARY PORTABLE EQUIPMENT SAFETY
Generators, compressors, welding sets and other portable equipment arrive on site with their own power, air and control cabling, laid fresh for each job and often removed the same day. That cabling is exactly the kind most likely to end up across a walkway. CableSafe’s hooks and cable bridges give it a home off the floor for as long as the equipment is on site.
THE SITUATION ON SITE
Portable equipment – generators, compressors, welding sets, pumps and similar gear – is brought onto a site for a specific job and taken away again once it’s done, sometimes within a single shift. Every setup means new power, air or control cabling laid fresh from the equipment to the point of use, and that cabling rarely has a permanent route planned for it.
Because the equipment and its cabling are only on site briefly, there’s a temptation to treat the cable run as temporary in every sense – including temporarily acceptable to leave across a walkway. In practice, a freshly laid lead is just as much of a trip hazard as any permanent installation, and the repeated setup and teardown cycle adds wear that a fixed cable run doesn’t see.
CableSafe supplies site teams with a kit built for exactly this kind of short-duration, fast-turnaround work: safety hooks, cable bridges and cable stands that give a freshly laid lead a home off the floor for as long as the equipment is on site, and come down just as quickly once the job is finished.
COMMON HAZARDS
Trip hazards from freshly laid cabling
Power, air and control cabling laid for a single job’s duration is just as much of a trip hazard as any permanent installation, and it’s easy to treat as temporarily acceptable to leave on the floor.
Repeated cable damage from setup and teardown
Portable equipment cabling goes through more setup and strike-down cycles than fixed installations, adding wear at connection points and along the run each time it’s redeployed.
No planned route for short-duration jobs
Because the equipment is only on site briefly, cable runs are often improvised rather than planned, increasing the chance a lead ends up crossing an active walkway.
CABLESAFE SOLUTIONS
Safety Hooks
Suspend leads from portable generators, compressors and welding sets off the floor entirely with a range of safety hooks, giving every setup a clear route without touching the floor.
Cable Safety
Where a lead does need to cross a walkway, protect it with 3-channel cable guards for light runs or 5-channel cable guards for bundled leads, both quick to lay and lift for a single-shift job.
A HOME FOR EVERY CABLE, EVEN FOR A DAY
Talk to our team about a kit for your portable equipment jobs – fast to install, fast to remove, built to be reused.