Winter safety salt spreader equipment for commercial facilities managers

 

Winter road and pathway safety is an important part of your facilities maintenance work. Did you know that on average; almost £5 million is spent each year on local road in your district on winter weather treatment spreading? This involves salting major roads when there is a risk of ice.

As business owners and facilities managers, it is naturally their responsibility with the appropriate available resources, to provide the best possible safe passage for employees and visitors to business facilities.

This need not be an expensive exercise and Hayter Outdoor have introduced a Salt Spreader product which is both economical and practical to use without and specialist skills or consumables.

Naturally, as pedestrian employees and visitors, it should never be assumed a road or pathway has been salted, but the application of salt by means of a salt spreader on nearby access ways shows appreciation and concern for employees and visitors and also decreases the risk of staff downtime due to falls and collisions.

Despite all efforts to reduce surface ice by means of a salt spreader, winter weather can still make roads and pathways treacherous. With over 90% of all accidents attributed to human error the real key to reducing risk of falls and collisions in winter, education of due care for the conditions is best represented by salt treated surfaces.

Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride otherwise known as rock salt. Rock salt forms isometric crystals and is typically colourless or white, but also can be found with many other tints of colour, depending on the amount and type of impurities.

Rock Salt is often spread around on both residential and municipally pedestrian surfacing for managing ice. Because brine (a solution of water and salt) has a lower freezing point than ordinary water, putting salt on ice will cause it to melt.

Salt Spreader
Winter safety assured by the Hayter Outdoor Salt Spreader for outside workplaces during wintery and icy conditions.