Enhancing Safety
WJ is recognized across the industry for best practice safety initiatives that benefit all.
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Safety is a core value of WJ Surface Treatments. Our mission is to collaborate with our partners and customers to promote our thinking, ensuring safety best practices are implemented across the supply chain.
Our safety protocols are recognized across the industry. We ensure our people are exposed to as minimal risk as possible and can manage their work-life commitments without compromising their health, safety, or wellbeing. Improving safety is a collaborative exercise, so we encourage communication and the sharing of lessons both internally and externally by working closely with our customers and suppliers.
As a business, we have significantly improved safety through redesigning vehicles, providing enhanced PPE, and extensive driver training.
For many years, the wider WJ group has been developing a safety and wellbeing culture with care, investment, determination, and innovation, while also fostering a sense of community. We challenged ourselves to find better and safer ways of working by radically changing our thinking, empowering our people, and influencing behaviors. The hard work invested provided ground-breaking outcomes, including innovations that were developed in collaboration and shared with the industry.
How we increase safety for road users
High Friction Surface
Treatments
- Reduce wet weather accidents by 57%
- Reduce the overall number of accidents on roads by 5.5%
- Increases Skid Resistance & Decreases Braking Distance
Captive Abrasive Friction Enhancement
- Increase surface skid resistance to the same or higher levels than when first laid.
- Removes excess bitumen build-up to restore macrotexture.
- Reduces Skid Related Accidents through increased surface friction.
Road safety for road users
Through our extensive range of surface treatment services, we will work with you to create a tailored solution that helps you deliver your project safely, on time, and within budget. Our objective is to help you create more resilient networks that maximize safety. No matter the size of your project, our experts provide a consistent, thorough approach to tackling challenges and will arrive at a solution that is efficient and beneficial for road users and local communities.
Key aspects of road safety
We’re able to support you in monitoring the skid resistance of your surfaces. This means you can effectively plan road network upgrades and maintenance in the medium to long term. In doing so, skid resistance is improved when needed, not as a reactive measure should an accident occur.
One of the best methods to avoid skidding-related incidents is to invest in and maintain the appropriate level of skid resistance to prevent slick surfaces, which will improve safety by decreasing braking distance.
We take into consideration the location and usage of individual highways, freeways, and road networks. For example, if there is a specific section of road that is on an approach to a school or a hospital, or if there are blind bends coming, we will work with you to ensure skid resistance is optimal to ensure the safety of all your road users.
The installation of high-friction surface treatments (HFST) is crucial at specific sections of road that are deemed dangerous, or, have the potential to become dangerous. HFST will reduce braking distance across any stretch of highway and will have a real positive impact on the local environment and its people by increasing safety.