Protective barrier

fixed

The standards adopted in edge protection and MSCP design are BS6399 part 1 and BS6180. However, following an enquiry by SCOSS into an incident in Canterbury, the DETR commissioned a report by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to provide a single defined standard. Avon Barrier safety barrier systems are designed to both exceed the British Standards and to comply with the recommendations of the DETR report which it is anticipated will become the defined standard for MSCP edge protection in years to come. The standard edge protection safety barrier system is designed to withstand the head-on impact of a 1500kg car travelling at 16kph, the resultant design impact force, from the calculation F = 0.5mv2(Dc + Db), is 130KN.The impact design height is 445mm and not the 375mm detailed in earlier standards and all posts, rails and fixingshave been reassessed to confirm their compliance.