Baliseur Automatic

Solution combining high technicity and optimal protection of operators

• 

Present situation: drudgery and danger

In France and in Europe thousands of temporary road markings are made each year as part of road works and maintenance. Most of the time 2 or 3 people are involved in putting traffic cones out of a vehicle (side or rear), manually.
Consequences :

• risk of musculoskeletal disorders. For example in France for each operation a worker lifts in average more than 100 cones of 4,2 kg, i.e. more than 400 kg of cones for a 2,8 km closure. In England they lift up between 260-300 cones of 10kg.
• High exposure to live traffic and falling risks.
  In France every three days an accident involves a motorway worker. Half of these
  accidents occures during marking operation of road works. Since 2002, 23 people have died on the motorway network. (source : www.personnel-autoroutes.fr).

The solution : automation

Over the past ten years, Optomachines has been working on the automation of cones laying and removing. A clever mechanism, the « dynamic toppling bar », that allows the cone to lean and to go easily up onto a motorized ramp, has been patented in
partnershift with the french motorway company Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône.
Semi-automatic first, this system (still available today) existing in two versions, lateral or rear side working, has improved significantly the work conditions. Two workers are required : the driver and an operator remaining protected inside the van and
who set the cones onto the motorized ramp, without leaning outside.
15 semi-automatic BALISEUR systems have been supplied to motorway companies.

In order to satisfy the wish of the motorway companies to minimize the manual tasks and the exposure to live traffic risks, Optomachines offers the fully automated and driven by a single worker : the driver.