Latest News - Mammoth Brace from Beaver 84
Ground Engineering is one of the most accident-prone sectors in a dangerous industry.
Beaver 84's new Mammoth Brace aims to make trenches a safer place to work.
Due to the nature of the work, ground engineering can be extremely dangerous and accidents are both prevalent and severe. Every year, people are killed or seriously injured when working in excavations as a result of the wrong methods being used or an unsafe system of work.
As a result the management of risk, reliability and the importance of health and safety are coming increasingly to the fore in the ground-engineering sector. With this in mind, there has never been a better time for employers in the ground-engineering sector to revisit their safety policies and check the performance of their equipment and ensure they are using the correct tools for job.
With the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently calling on the construction industry to remember the significant dangers they face when working in excavations following recent fatalities caused by trench collapses, the industry is certainly facing a pivotal time. Ground engineering is a complex technical field that constantly offers new challenges and unforeseen demands.
In order to achieve excellent health and safety, ground-engineering companies must work with clients and suppliers from the conceptual stage of the design process to agree objectives and build open communications between all parties ensuring that the safest equipment around is specified for the job.
Beaver 84 is one company that is making significant advances in the
ground-engineering sector by supplying a comprehensive range of products and services
Beaver 84, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of high quality non-mechanical equipment, has recently launched the Mammoth Brace. Mammoth Brace is the largest brace within its class in the UK and allows digs of up to 25m2 and exceeds all health and safety standards.
Mammoth Brace is a modular system engineered with features to maintain excavation integrity allowing on-site flexibility and meeting even the most challenging of design needs. As the frame is 30 per cent lighter than any other fame on the market, installation is quick providing significant time and cost savings to the customer. Most importantly, it provides a safe working environment for excavation workers.
The Mammoth Brace leads the field in safety, achieved through a range of innovative features. The Brace has an increased load capacity; the 800kN hydraulic power unit has up to 20 per cent more load capacity than other systems enabling it to support a greater span in poor conditions. In addition, the hydraulic unit has an extension of up to 1.7m, allowing an overall overlap of up to 200mm. This means that if an over-dig occurs then the hydraulic unit can extend 200mm to cover the gap between modules, creating dig flexibility, convenience and safety on site. For excavations larger than 25msq, cross braces can be used. Mammoth Brace has safe connection points built into the design. Positive connections between the modules and the cross brace prevents cross brace slippage and ensures a safer working environment.
Jason Pullum, Sales Director at Beaver 84 comments: ‘Health and safety is of paramount importance to the ground-engineering sector and at Beaver 84, we are determined to help drive down the number of accidents and fatalities in the industry. The correct tools and equipment must be specified for a job, or the human and financial cost of accidents in ground engineering can be devastating. In response to this problem we have helped to develop a product that can balance time efficiency with excellent safety, and we are extremely pleased with the result.
Beaver 84, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of high quality non-mechanical equipment, has recently launched the Mammoth Brace. Mammoth Brace is the largest brace within its class in the UK and allows digs of up to 25m2 and exceeds all health and safety standards.
Mammoth Brace is a modular system engineered with features to maintain excavation integrity allowing on-site flexibility and meeting even the most challenging of design needs. As the frame is 30 per cent lighter than any other fame on the market, installation is quick providing significant time and cost savings to the customer. Most importantly, it provides a safe working environment for excavation workers.
The Mammoth Brace leads the field in safety, achieved through a range of innovative features. The Brace has an increased load capacity; the 800kN hydraulic power unit has up to 20 per cent more load capacity than other systems enabling it to support a greater span in poor conditions. In addition, the hydraulic unit has an extension of up to 1.7m, allowing an overall overlap of up to 200mm. This means that if an over-dig occurs then the hydraulic unit can extend 200mm to cover the gap between modules, creating dig flexibility, convenience and safety on site. For excavations larger than 25msq, cross braces can be used. Mammoth Brace has safe connection points built into the design. Positive connections between the modules and the cross brace prevents cross brace slippage and ensures a safer working environment.
Jason Pullum, Sales Director at Beaver 84 comments: ‘Health and safety is of paramount importance to the ground-engineering sector and at Beaver 84, we are determined to help drive down the number of accidents and fatalities in the industry. The correct tools and equipment must be specified for a job, or the human and financial cost of accidents in ground engineering can be devastating. In response to this problem we have helped to develop a product that can balance time efficiency with excellent safety, and we are extremely pleased with the result.
He continues: ‘awareness and preparation are key to safe excavation and to accompany the Mammoth Brace we also offer a design service to support the hire of our excavation brace equipment. All customers can utilise this service in order to obtain the most economical and safe shoring equipment for their particular needs.’
Beaver 84 tailors the Mammoth Brace to meet the needs of their customers and therefore provides a cost-effective, innovative and ultimately safe approach to all projects that it is specified for. All these important factors needed to be realised when the Brace was hired out to Modebest. Modebest, a ground works company, specified the Brace for the installation of an interceptor tank at a new Tesco site in North London.
Jason Fitzpatrick, from Modebest comments: ‘We used the Brace to shore up an excavation of 17.5m x 5.3m and we were impressed with the ease of installation which meant we could get on with the ground works sooner. Due to the heavy-duty nature and high capacity of the product we were reassured that all of our employees were safe on site, an extremely important aspect to any excavation work which ultimately offered us peace of mind’.
The Mammoth Brace is quality assured and is manufactured in facility that is accredited. The design of the brace conforms to BS449 allowable stress designs and is manufactured to industry standards conforming to BSEN ISO 15609-1 2004 and BSEN 287-1 2004 – structural efficiency.
Excavation must not be undertaken in a casual way and must be adequately planned. The correct tools must be used in order to safeguard employees working in the excavation, ensure safety to members of the public and to safeguard adjacent property and services. Clearly a large number of accidents result from specifying the wrong equipment and as a result companies must understand the inherent risks and make sure all excavation products specified adhere to the strictest of health and safety standards so that a positive health and safety culture can be promoted in the ground-engineering sector.
Beaver 84 tailors the Mammoth Brace to meet the needs of their customers and therefore provides a cost-effective, innovative and ultimately safe approach to all projects that it is specified for. All these important factors needed to be realised when the Brace was hired out to Modebest. Modebest, a ground works company, specified the Brace for the installation of an interceptor tank at a new Tesco site in North London.
Jason Fitzpatrick, from Modebest comments: ‘We used the Brace to shore up an excavation of 17.5m x 5.3m and we were impressed with the ease of installation which meant we could get on with the ground works sooner. Due to the heavy-duty nature and high capacity of the product we were reassured that all of our employees were safe on site, an extremely important aspect to any excavation work which ultimately offered us peace of mind’.
The Mammoth Brace is quality assured and is manufactured in facility that is accredited. The design of the brace conforms to BS449 allowable stress designs and is manufactured to industry standards conforming to BSEN ISO 15609-1 2004 and BSEN 287-1 2004 – structural efficiency.
Excavation must not be undertaken in a casual way and must be adequately planned. The correct tools must be used in order to safeguard employees working in the excavation, ensure safety to members of the public and to safeguard adjacent property and services. Clearly a large number of accidents result from specifying the wrong equipment and as a result companies must understand the inherent risks and make sure all excavation products specified adhere to the strictest of health and safety standards so that a positive health and safety culture can be promoted in the ground-engineering sector.