The company won the category for Best OHS Solution in Manufacturing, Logistics and Agriculture for its use of robotics to increase the safety of its workers who operate bin cleaning services.
The bin cleaning industry is relatively new and largely unregulated. Currently, many operations involve high-pressure washing, manual lifting, potential ingestion of vapours and liquids, traffic hazards, and exposure to UV.
Testing has found domestic bins are covered with high levels of disease-carrying bacteria, and garbage industry operators, landfill operators, councils and their workers risk breathing in these toxic vapors.
To alleviate these concerns, bin cleaning services are used to sanitize the bins on a regular basis. However, manual handling of these bins expose bin cleaning workers to the same hazards.
Freshbins fitted its vehicle with a camera-enabled 3D-sensing robot which automatically senses the position of the bins, and lifts them into the cleaning chamber. A high-efficiency ozone sterilization system reduces the use of dangerous chemicals.
The operator is kept away from the cleaning process, remaining in the driver’s cabin at all times.
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