8 Quick Tips About Guardrail Installation

Before installation:

1. Review the guardrail plans

Before guardrail installation, check the guardrail plans. Make sure the current standard road plans match the date listed in the project plans.

2. Guardrail Beam Check

Check the guardrail beam specification such as two wave guardrails. Make sure the guardrail match your country's standard.

3. Guardrail Accessories Check

Check whether the bolts and nuts match the guardrails beam. Make sure the posts and spacer blocks match the guardrail beam, also check whether they are galvanized.

4. Installation Location Related Checks

Make sure the installation line is correctly located for the type of guardrail, w-beam, thrie-beam, or cable. The offset distances must be correct for face of guardrail location from the installation line.

When installing:

5. Guardrail Installation Machine Check:

Make sure the guardrail pile driver works properly.

6. The Guardrail Location Check

Are posts and guardrail located correctly? The rail/cable height need to be according to height specified in the Standard Road Plans. (ie: 31 inches for w-beam and 32 inches for thrie-beam). Make sure the post spaced correctly.

7. Guardrail Post Plumb Check

The guardrail posts need to be reasonably plumb. So when using guardrail pile drivers, make sure the hammer accurate match the post shape. (Such as C channel post and round channel post).

8. Traffic Marker Related Checks

You also need to check whether the object markers, delineators, and associated hardware installed correctly?

Think Doing Traffic Equipment Business? Read This Article!

It is well known that traffic accidents are of high importance to the public health spectrum around the world. Statistics show that far more people are injured or die in traffic accidents than are afflicted by any of the most serious diseases. So a variety of traffic safety equipment take place in preventing traffic accidents.

Guardrails

Guardrails are mainly installed in highway and secondary road to prevent the vehicle from running out of the road. The most common type of guardrails are W beam galvanized guardrails.

Reflective Road Marking

Road marking with reflective glass beads is another way for road traffic safety. When a car's headline beam shines on a striping which integrates glass beads, the striping seems to light up and gets much better visible at night. It is an effective method to prevent night traffic accidents.

Road Studs

Like reflective road marking, the road studs with reflectors is also an important part of road traffic safety. In nighttime, it is necessary to provide the guide for drivers along dark roads. Some new design of cat's eye also uses LEDs which flash at about 100 times per second.

Speed Bumps

As a method for lowering the speed of motor vehicles along specific street sections, speed bumps and speed humps are widely used in residential streets and parking lots etc.

Traffic Cones

Traffic cones are typically used outdoors during road work or other situations requiring traffic redirection or advance warning of hazards or dangers, or the prevention of traffic. Traffic cones with reflective film is a great method to increase visibility for night use or low-light situations. On occasion, traffic cones may also be fitted with flashing lights for the same reason.

Safety Vest

Safety Vests are mainly used by road maintenance workers. The safety vests have reflective film which can be highly visible in low-light situations and catch the drivers' attention. Some countries require that the drivers must have reflective safety vests in their vehicles.

Convex Mirrors

Acrylic convex traffic mirrors can provide more than 160-degree viewing angle to help reduce traffic accidents in curves, cross roads and etc.