Archive The Safety Shuttle
How can you make construction sites safer?
The ever-changing environment in construction sites is a dangerous place to have a career. Safety procedures are set in place but are often overridden because they slow down the working pace. How can we create a safe environment that supports and complements the duress of a construction site work culture?
The Solution
Studying products that enable safe and efficient movement at elevated heights, students designed a simple shuttle that clamps onto lifeline ropes ensuring safety. The purpose of the design is to allow two shuttles to bypass each other through a simple geometric rotation as workers move across the line. This would follow as a replacement to products such as harnesses, retractable lanyards and stanchions. This simple tool could be included easily into the existing lifeline system, which includes a host of other tools required for construction.
Iterations and sketches of early design concepts.
Students conduct user reseach by analyzing tasks and exploring use scenarios
![Stress Test](images/safetyshuttle-stresstest_900x600.jpg)
Stress test of the final design
Patents
In 2013, MSA Safety patented the shuttle design and soon after launched it in the marketplace.
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