Pedestrian Guard Rail
How Do Pedestrian Guard Rails Work?
Pedestrian guard rails are designed to create a physical barrier between pedestrians and vehicle traffic, reducing the risk of collisions. They act as a buffer to prevent vehicles from entering pedestrian areas, thereby making sure to protect adults and children alike.
Types Of Pedestrian Guardrails
There are two key types of pedestrian guardrail that you can choose from: PG1 and PG2. Each has vertical bars, but there are differences too.
Let’s find out about exactly what they are so you can choose the one that best fits your situation.
PG1 Pedestrian Guardrail
The PG1 Pedestrian Guardrail is designed with the utmost attention to safety and durability, ensuring a robust barrier between pedestrians and potential hazards. This guardrail is an essential component for enhancing safety at warehouses, production facilities, service yards, walkways, and car parks.
- Superior Construction: Manufactured from a 50 x 30mm RHS frame, offering exceptional strength and longevity.
- Optimal Visibility: Features a 12mm diameter infill with bars spaced at 108mm centres, ensuring high visibility for both pedestrians and drivers.
- Versatile Application: Ideal for a variety of settings, including urban environments, schools, and recreational areas, with standard panels measuring 2m in length and 1.05m in height.
Designed to safeguard pedestrians, the PG1 Pedestrian Guardrail is a testament to commitment towards public safety and infrastructure resilience.
PG2 Pedestrian Guardrail
The PG2 Pedestrian Guardrail stands as an advanced version of its predecessor, tailored for heightened safety and visibility in public spaces. This guardrail is specifically designed to meet the rigorous demands of higher-traffic areas, offering enhanced protection for pedestrians.
- Quality Assurance: All PG1 and PG2 pedestrian guardrails are galvanised to comply with BS EN 1661. This steel is durable, long-lasting, and ready to protect you once we have helped with installation.
- Improved Visibility: Incorporates an infill of 12mm diameter bars set at 108mm centres, ensuring even greater visibility and safety for both pedestrians and vehicle operators with the horizontal sight gap at the top.
- Extended Applications: With its robust design, the PG2 is especially suited for environments with higher vehicular traffic or where additional safety measures are crucial. Talk to our sales team to decide which guardrail fits your purpose best.
The PG2 Pedestrian Guardrail represents a significant advancement in safety barriers, offering a range of enhanced features for increased protection in busy areas.
Suitable For:
Warehouses
Production Facilities
Service Yards
Walkways
Car Parks
Pedestrian Guard Rail Specifications:
2.0m wide x 1.05m high galvanised steel panels to BS 7818;1995 – If you want to find out more information on specifications, why not take a look at our Pedestrian Guardrail Standard Detail page.
The Benefits of Pedestrian Guard Rails
The benefits of pedestrian guard rails are as follows:
Enhanced Pedestrian Safety
This type of guard rail provides a barrier between pedestrians and vehicle traffic, which helps to increase pedestrian safety in areas where there is a potential risk of vehicle accidents. This is particularly important in areas with high pedestrian traffic, such as shopping centres, schools, and public spaces.
Protection of Property
Pedestrian guard rails can also help protect buildings, property, and other structures from damage caused by vehicle collisions. They can act as a buffer between the vehicle and the property, reducing the impact of the collision and minimising the damage caused.
Durable and Long-Lasting
Our pedestrian guard rail systems are made from high-quality galvanised steel, which provides excellent durability and longevity. This means that you can trust our products to provide long-lasting protection, helping to save you money on guardrail maintenance and replacement costs.
Pedestrian Guard Rail FAQs:
We’ve done our best to try and answer some of the most frequently asked questions about pedestrian guard rails below:
Full-height guardrails have a rectangular section frame (2m by 0.94m) that stands above the ground, providing a vertical upstand of 1050mm.
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Pedestrian guardrail panels are generally used along the side of any walkway to provide guidance for pedestrians. We manufacture special guardrail panels that help improve pedestrian safety in high-risk areas like roads or a primary school. You are likely to find this type of Pedestrian guardrail in any location where preventing vehicles and people from colliding is a priority.
The guard rail can come with a visibility gap, a powder-coated finish, or a hot dip galvanised finish.
The UK’s Building Regulations Part K specifies that guardrails must consist of two horizontal rails with a height of 1,100mm as a minimum and must withstand an equally distributed load of 0.74kN per metre with a point load of 0.5kN.
A pedestrian guard rail should be installed on the edge of walkways adjacent to traffic. They can be used in factories, service yards, distribution centres, production facilities, car parks, airports, and private roads to guide pedestrians correctly and act as an effective barrier. These rails can be colour coated to look aesthetically pleasing or to be noticed more easily and reduce the vision gap.
Here at Armco Direct, we manufacture Pedestrian guardrail panels that help to ensure pedestrian safety at all times. For more information, please contact our customer service team, and they’ll be happy to help find a rail that meets your customer requirements.