Towering
skyscrapers.Highways and streets stretching for miles and miles. The food on
your table and the gadgets you can't live without. All these modern marvels
would not have been made possible without the construction and mining
industries which rely heavily on earth-moving equipment like graders,
bulldozers, excavators, backhoes, and scrapers.
While ancient builders
constructed timeless wonders using ingenuity and sheer manpower, today's
builders cannot create modern wonders as quickly and as efficiently without this equipment.
Heavy equipment
manufactured by the likes of Daewoo, Caterpillar, Mitsubishi, Yanmar, Komatsu,
Kubota, Case, JCB, and Bobcat are built tough and can handle the demands of both
construction and mining sites.
However, there is one particular part that can
leave them vulnerable to vandal attacks as well as harsh work environments —
the operator's cab.
To
protect heavy equipment against vandal attacks, construction, and mining firms
can implement a variety of strategies. These can include beefing up security, especially during nighttime when operations have ceased, and the use of security
equipment like alarms, padlocks, and CCTV.
But if there is one convenient and
cost-efficient way to protect a construction or mining firm's investment, that
would be vandal covers or vandal guards.
Vandal guards
may be made of aluminum, punched, welded, or woven mesh, solid steel, solid
plastic, or flat bars and are installed onto the earth-moving equipment's cab
through buttons, brackets, hinges, and pad-lockable over-center catches.
While
vandal guards can prevent stones hurled against it by saboteurs or during
industrial demolitions or mining operations, mesh vandal guards can allow
visual control for the operator without compromising his safety. In addition to
this, they are designed to allow the quick and safe entry and exit of the
operators.
When it comes to
turning projects on time or meeting quotas, time is of the essence.
Construction and mining firms must ensure continuous operations and minimize or
prevent the cessation of operations due to various causes including the
breakdown of earth-moving equipment.
Breakdown of equipment can translate to
delays, which in turn can mean loss of profits and opportunities or even
hassles with the client. As such, it is essential to put in place measures that
will ensure continuity of operations. In addition to these, vandal covers are a
small investment that a firm can make to protect some of its most
important assets — its heavy equipment. Take the necessary precautions and do
not leave anything to chance.
