Building on the revolutionary Springbelt concept we have developed the Springbelt-Flex as a comfortable, easy to use industrial seatbelt by introducing a fully functional, ISO9001 compliant ALR, (Automatically Locking Retractor), all designed and developed in Australia. Ensuring that your employees wear a correctly fastened seatbelt is most probably one of the most significant changes you, as an employer, can make to any safety program involving forklift truck or mobile plant in a short period of time. Safety is the legal responsibility of the employer. Designed for use on forklifts, mobile plant and agricultural equipment Springbelt-Flex is a restraint device crash tested to 50kph that sits over the operators lap like a protective halo. View a video of the Springbelt-Flex. 4mb file here. Or view on Youtube here..
Whether it’s because they can’t be bothered, find them unnecessary or they wrongly think it’s safer to try and jump free in an emergency, the fact is that many operators don’t fasten their seat belts, often with tragic results. That’s why we felt compelled to develop a more practical alternative. It’s called the Springbelt-Flex, because as you can see, it springs up when unbuckled making it a real nuisance and uncomfortable to operate the machine or mobile plant. Then when it’s buckled, it holds the operator firmly, comfortably and safely in his seat. A universal fitting kit makes it easy to install Springbelt-Flex in all common types of mobile machinery.
A normal seatbelt if correctly fastened will lock a drivers hips in a forward position, which is comfortable for operators travelling forward however a forklift operator in particular will spend approximately half his time travelling in reverse and the other half in a forward direction. Springbelt-Flex allows the operators the freedom of movement they require while at the same time keeping them safely restrained in the vehicle in the event of an accident.