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Factory Safety Lines by Concrete Fusion

In dynamic settings such as commercial, manufacturing, or industrial environments, along with bustling warehouses, shopping centres, and spaces with heavy foot and vehicle traffic, it’s essential to clearly designate floor areas with lines, stripes, and markings. Concrete Fusion offers cutting-edge industrial floor marking solutions, providing a straightforward way to highlight potential hazards and establish pedestrian and forklift pathways, guiding individuals through the workspace.
Our industrial floor marking is meticulously crafted for maximum visibility and reflectivity, ensuring safety, even in challenging conditions such as low-light or wet environments, and exhibits exceptional durability to endure harsh conditions over an extended period.

Reflective Highly Visible Stripes, Markings, & Lines for Industrial Flooring

The busy operations in commercial, industrial, and institutional settings result in considerable traffic from vehicles and pedestrians. To prioritize employee and visitor safety, effective floor marking is crucial to identifying potentially risky zones, offering clear guidance for navigating the premises and adhering to specific regulations.

Floor marking becomes a necessity in areas like aisles, warehouses, production lines, and industrial facilities—spaces where multiple individuals, carts, and vehicles need to navigate. Optimal floor marking is reflective and highly visible, ensuring instant recognition, even in challenging conditions such as wet or dim surroundings.

Concrete Fusion’s array of industrial floor marking solutions includes options with superior reflectivity, providing excellent visibility for lines and stripes. Our solutions are designed to withstand heavy pedestrian, cart, and forklift traffic, or chemical exposure.

 

Depending on the facility’s environment, the longevity of high-performance flooring striping and line marking products allows for extended reapplication cycles. Utilizing these industry-leading products minimizes the need for frequent reapplication, helping to keep downtimes to a minimum.

 

Guidelines For Floor Markings, Lines, & Stripes

 

Creating helpful markings for your space takes the correct paint and a logical plan. Some of the ways to ensure your floor markings serve you for many years include:

 

1. Enhance Navigation & Safety

In an efficient warehouse, floor markers create well-defined and easily navigable paths for equipment and workers. These markers establish safe routes, guiding individuals away from potential hazards and providing a clear path. 

Accurate floor markings become indispensable for forklift operators, facilitating efficient navigation, minimizing the risk of accidental collisions, and streamlining their movements. To optimize spatial utilization, warehouse managers should prioritize the efficient use of space. Floor markings are instrumental in distinguishing loading zones, workspaces, and storage areas, allowing warehouse managers to enhance the facility’s layout and operational efficiency.

2. Follow the Rules

Adhering to industry standards, warehouses must mark aisles to ensure worker safety, irrespective of location. These aisles require clear markings with sufficient width for equipment to pass safely and must always be free of obstacles. To ensure visibility, floor markings should have a minimum width of two inches.

Concrete Fusion’s floor markings contribute to compliance with safety regulations by clearly designating critical elements like emergency exits, fire extinguishers, and areas for storing hazardous items. At Concrete Fusion, we bring industry expertise to ensure our floor markings align with safety rules set by relevant authorities.

3. Improve Operational Efficiency

Visual cues provided by floor markings significantly enhance workflow efficiency in a warehouse setting. These markings guide traffic, indicate picking and packaging areas, and simplify staff understanding of processes, thereby reducing downtime and increasing overall productivity.

Planning your floor markings with your operation flow in mind ensures they stay useful for years instead of needing revisions. Also, using high-performance marking material ensures your plans are clear and followed for the long run.

4. Use Colour-Coded Signals

Your warehouses must implement a standardized colour system for floor markings to convey different signals to employees and visitors. The significance of each colour is up to your team, with the most crucial point being consistency throughout your space.

  • Yellow typically signifies traffic lanes, work zones, and aisles. 
  • Red indicates dangerous areas where people should keep out or use caution. 
  • You might use white as pedestrian zones or general demarcation.
  • Black, green, and blue often denote unfinished goods, work-in-progress, and raw resources. 
  • First aid stations and safety showers are distinctly marked with red and white stripes, emphasizing their easy accessibility and the importance of keeping them unobstructed.
  • Black and white stripes highlight areas crucial for operational purposes, not solely for safety.
  • Black and yellow bands unmistakably indicate dangerous zones.

Our Floor Marking Products

Concrete Fusion offers the industry’s top products for flooring marking, lines and stripes. Check out some of our most trusted products below:

Polyaspartic Floor Coating

A two-component, high-solids resin incorporating polyaspartic technology, featuring a slower-set formulation that provides enhanced flexibility for floor marking, lining, and striping in warehouse environments. This polyaspartic floor coating offers extended working time (15-20 minutes) and ensures fast curing, allowing foot traffic in just 6 hours. 

Its improved flow and levelling characteristics minimize roller marks, facilitating the creation of a uniform, smooth finish—especially advantageous for larger floors. With excellent chemical resistance, mechanical strength, low-temperature curing, and a high-gloss finish, this coating is tailored for optimal performance in warehouse marking applications.

Two-Component Epoxy

A tintable epoxy and binder resin, this coating is optimal for warehouse marking, lining, and striping applications. This versatile epoxy, applicable directly over primed substrates or as a gloss seal coat for decorative slurry and mortar systems, exhibits exceptional durability and resistance to chemicals, impact, and abrasion. 

With a robust resistance to impact and scratches, easy cleanability, and chemical resistance, it is suitable for deployment in AAFC-inspected facilities and meets the standards for Canadian food processing. 

The antimicrobial agent option enhances its suitability for various industrial settings. Also, its tint bases can be customized, offering a 50% tint strength for added versatility.

When your floor requires markings, lines, or stripes, trust Concrete Fusion’s high-quality floor marking solutions. Explore a spectrum of standard and unlimited custom colours to align with facility branding and regulatory requirements.

 

To find out more about our Factory Safety Line services for concrete floors,

call (613) 714-0656 or fill out an online request