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Equipment and Capabilities / Equipment Safety Systems

Equipment Safety Systems.

Pedestrian detection, HEPA filtration, fire suppression systems, exclusion lighting, height and slew restriction and payload management. Specified for the job before the equipment reaches site.

Safety configured for the job

A rail corridor, tunnel and busy civil site each present different risks. Focus works through the task, operating environment and project requirements to specify the safety systems the equipment needs before it reaches site.

That may include pedestrian detection, HEPA cabin filtration, fire suppression systems, HALO exclusion lighting, height and slew restriction, or payload and lift management. The selected systems are incorporated into the equipment package, checked through our Ready to Dig process and prepared for the project's compliance requirements.

Systems available across the fleet
In-cab pedestrian detection camera display

Pedestrian detection

Alerts operators to pedestrians entering the preset exclusion zone.

Tunnel spec dump truck at a portal

HEPA cabin filtration

Helps protect operators from harmful airborne particles in high-risk environments.

Fire suppression cylinder mounted on a Cat 335F excavator working in a tunnel

Fire suppression

Detects and suppresses engine bay fires to protect operators and equipment.

Tunnel dumper projecting red HALO exclusion lighting

HALO exclusion lighting

Makes the equipment's exclusion zone visible to people nearby.

Excavator working beneath a low concrete ceiling

Height and slew restriction

Controls movement around overhead hazards and restricted work zones.

Excavator lifting a trench shield at night on Eastlink

Payload and lift management

Gives operators load information and, with systems such as Prolec PME500, can apply operating limits and motion cutouts.

Case studies
Keeping roadheader excavation moving on North East Link — project photograph from the original case study

North East Link - Roadheader Spoil Removal

Keeping roadheader excavation moving

Continuous spoil removal behind a roadheader left no room for downtime or non-compliant plant. Six tunnel-spec dump trucks arrived configured and ready.

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Tunnel-spec excavation for cross passage works — project photograph from the original case study

North East Link - Cross Passage Works

Tunnel-spec excavation for cross passage works

Cross-passage excavation inside an active TBM environment, where only fully tunnel-spec plant could go underground. An 8T breaker package was built for exactly that.

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Precision payload management on the Eastern Freeway Upgrade — project photograph from the original case study

Eastern Freeway - Bourke to Tram (EBTA)

Precision payload management

No space for a weighbridge on a constrained live site, with overloaded trucks the risk. Onboard weighing and 3D GPS came fitted to two excavators.

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Supporting schedule-critical tunnelling excavation works — project photograph from the original case study

Lower Plenty Cut and Cover - Spark North East Link

Supporting schedule-critical tunnelling excavation works

Hard-rock production in a restricted excavation envelope against a fixed TBM breakthrough milestone. A short-stick 35t CAT with a Montabert hammer was configured for it.

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Scope your safety requirements.

Tell us the task, the environment and the project's compliance requirements.

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Focus Machinery team supporting an underground infrastructure project