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Airfence Safety Systems is an Australian based, global
company committed to providing the highest quality, affordable
and practical safety systems for motor (and other) sports, particularly
motorcycle racing.
Since our first barriers were released in 1991 we have
been striving to improve our products, range of products and to
better serve our customers.
We develop, manufacture and sell our own safety systems. They
are designed to absorb impact and safely decelerate riders, drivers
and other sports people, protecting them from impact with solid
objects. Our systems apply modern materials and technologies to
the safety of sporting venues.
We are serious about safety. That is why we have developed
our own testing facility to test every aspect of our designs and
not just test for accreditation where test specifications are
often very limited. Because Airfence products are the professionally
engineered safety systems, they have saved numerous lives as well
as unknown numbers of injuries. They have been developed to ensure
that the maximum energy of the impact is absorbed by the barrier
and that "spikes" of deceleration, which are so injurious to riders,
are eliminated.
Ongoing development has been our priority to ensure that
all the impact absorbing features have been retained and improved.
Refinements have been added, making Airfence more practical and
user friendly as well as addressing potential problems such as
riders sliding underneath it. So now Airfence is standard fare
at premier motorcycling events around the world.
Not only for motorcyclists any more! Airfence is continually
looking for other sporting applications for it's products and
so we now see them used a cycling, charging and skiing events
too.
Are you serious about safety too?
Airfence maintains the excitement of sport. Excitement
and perceived danger are inexorably linked. We don't want to sterilize
our sport with endless run-offs and removal of spectators from
the action. . So let's keep and increase the spectacle of roadracing
while providing the best safety standards possible.
Present your track or venue professionally. Tyre walls, straw
bales and foam blocks don't work to absorb impacts of human bodies
and look shabby, whether or not wrapped in a plastic bag. Give
your track the presentation that will attract riders spectators,
the media and advertisers. Our sport needs managers who look to
the future and see the gains from maximizing the safety of the
racing environment. Whether on a ride day or in a GP, the track
has to be the safe alternative for riding fast. Is the next TV
coverage of your event going to hone in on some tragedy that could
perhaps been avoided? Are we really counting the cost of such
publicity?
We are all only too aware of our duty of care. When increased
safety is clearly available for dangerous locations, anyone who
ignores that is in a vulnerable position. "Is the life of an international
rider worthy of higher levels of safety than other competitors
of yours?" Don't let this question be asked of you in court!
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