Rail

RSS Infrastructure

How RSS Infrastructure implemented Tended’s geofencing Wearables to help protect workers conducting essential maintenance

Background

RSS Infrastructure (RSSI) offers infrastructure solutions for rail, civil engineering and utilities and serves clients such as Network Rail, HS2, Midland Metro Alliance, as well as several Tier 1 and 2 contractors.

A recognised leader in railway safety, RSSI required a game-changing solution that would create safer work environments and protect its track workers like never before. Having assessed various solutions, RSSI approached Tended to help them to deliver safer and more efficient projects. They selected Tended’s technology over other safety systems due to its simplicity and lack of extra infrastructure required, making the system incredibly quick to deploy.

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Solution

Key examples of where Tended’s system has been applied

RSSI used Tended’s Wearables to help protect its workers when lifting and packing on-track ballasts. For this, Tended’s system was used conjunction with a single line blockage.
Tended’s Wearables were used to help to keep teams within safe working areas when operating next to two open rail lines with trains travelling at 100 mph.

Results

Tended’s technology has helped enhance safety and efficiency by:

Supporting the Site Warden by providing teams with a secondary protection alerting the workforce when they strayed out of the safe zone boundaries.
Helping to keep teams a safe distance away from adjacent open lines and out of the path of high-speed oncoming trains, helping to prevent any accidents or near misses.
Following the success of this project, RSSI will continue to use Tended’s system to help protect its workforce.

Jason Fidoe, Technical Manager at RSSI commented on the project:

"The system was so quick and easy to set up, allowing us to create incredibly precise boundaries for our workers, ensuring they remained within safe work zones while performing essential trackside maintenance.

Observing just how quickly the device alerted when a worker stepped out of safe working limits helped put our minds at ease about teams working next to adjacent open lines. It was an especially hot few days, which is always a concern for our trackside teams as this can sometimes cause fatigue and disorientation; knowing that we had Tended’s technology to respond to any potential loss of situational awareness was very reassuring."

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