Mick George has invested in a new system that enables global positioning system (GPS) pods to be installed or removed more safely.
Working with its GPS supplier Sitech, it has engineered a solution that allows the GPS pods to be repositioned on top of the dozer cab, with the operator standing on the cab platform, instead of the rear.
Mick George 鈥� still in the process of being acquired by Hanson 鈥� has more than 20 dozers on various projects throughout the country, and said it had 鈥減ractical evidence鈥� of the difficulties operators face when installing or removing GPS pods that are traditionally positioned on the rear mounts of the cab.
The company believes that re-siting GPS pods has the potential to prevent injury and should be embraced by the wider construction industry.
Sitech sales manager Lisa Cheshire agrees. 鈥淭his is a great initiative to reduce the people to plant interface and we're delighted to see such innovation from the Mick George Group," she said.
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