Machine Guarding
Designed to effectively separate and partition pedestrians, machinery, and material handling vehicles. Barrier Group's Industrial Safety Fencing and machine guard systems create clear physical separation, adapt seamlessly to complex layout requirements, and preserve high operational visibility while ensuring compliance with AS/NZS 4024: 2019 (Safety of Machinery).
When is Machine Guarding Needed?
Machine guarding is a crucial safety precaution in New Zealand's machine-intensive environments where people work close to hazardous movements and automation. Machine guards help protect operators, control access and create predictable, safe machine zones.
Machine guarding is essential when:
- Operational machinery has hazardous moving parts that cannot be fully eliminated by design or control systems;
- Operators and maintenance staff need to work close to operating machinery equipment;
- Access is required during operation, such as through doors or gates;
- People, machines and automation share zones; and
- Compliance, stable, and long-term asset protection is required around continuous-duty machines.
Without proper guarding, the risk of accidents, downtime and costly damage increases significantly.
Protect People from Hazardous Machinery
Barrier Group industrial fencing and machine guards are designed to effectively separate pedestrians from hazardous machinery, automated equipment, and vehicle movements. Posts, panels, doors and interlocking accessories help to isolate hazard and extend the distance a person can reach through, reach over, or reach under.
Safeguard Continuous-Duty Machines and Equipment
Protect your high value assets while maintaining operations flow. Beyond personnel safety, machine guarding systems also help safeguard valuable equipment and infrastructure, acting as a physical barrier that minimizes damage caused by accidental collisions from forklifts, pallet jacks and other material handling vehicles operating within busy industrial environments.
Access Control & Hazard Containment
Machine guarding partitioning systems, combined with integrated gates and locking mechanisms, help prevent unauthorized personnel from accessing hazardous machinery and automated systems. This ensures restricted operational zones remain controlled and accessible only to authorized personnel.
Modular Industrial Fencing & Safeguarding Systems
Industrial safety fencing and machine guarding are essential to protecting warehouse and manufacturing personnel from high-speed equipment, automated robotics, and material handling hazards like forklifts.
The Industrial Safety Fencing™ system features pre-drilled steel posts with four-way connectivity, allowing fast multi-sided enclosure setups. Fixed panels can be equipped with either black powder-coated welded steel mesh or 4.5mm clear polycarbonate infill. Furthermore, panels feature tamper-resistant fixings that require specialized tools for removal—preventing unauthorized operator access and maintaining full compliance across your facility.
Machine Guarding Product Range
Explore modular mild steel and corrosion-resistant stainless steel machine guarding solutions tailored for any New Zealand workplace.
Steel Machine Guarding
Heavy-duty mild steel posts and panels finished in high-visibility Safety Yellow with black welded mesh or polycarbonate infill options.
Stainless Steel Machine Guarding
304 and 316 grade stainless steel guarding built specifically for washdown environments, food processing, and corrosive industrial applications.
Cantilever, Overhead, and Swing Doors
Integrated swing doors and overhead-track sliding gates configured to maintain continuous compliance while allowing controlled personnel access.
Implementing Integrated Safety at JOST's New Warehouse Faciliy
JOST Australia, a leading supplier of advanced transportation components within Australia, required a warehouse fit-out for their newly constructed head office facility in Laverton North. This initiative marked a pivotal step in the company’s strategic expansion plan, aimed at optimising distribution efficiency and increasing storage capacity.
JOST Australia collaborated with Barrier Group to implement an end-to-end safety solution at their new facility. The project encompassed Barrier Group’s traffic management, machine guarding, signage and line marking solutions, being among Barrier Group’s largest line marking initiatives to date, demonstrating a commitment to operational safety and excellence.
- Comprehensive Protection — Complete multi-barrier fit-out separating heavy vehicle traffic from active personnel zones.
- Hazardous Equipment Guarding — Modular machine guarding installed around operational machinery for complete hazard containment.
- Seamless Site Logistics — Coordinated installation around JOST's operational schedules and opening timelines.
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