Fixed guards, perimeter fencing, interlocked enclosures and bespoke safety guarding manufactured in our Leeds workshop to client specification. Compliant with Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and PUWER. Coded welders. UK-wide installation.
Machine guarding sits at the intersection of safety law, machinery design, and shop-floor reality. A guard that's perfect on paper but takes three operators ten minutes to remove for routine cleaning will be unbolted by week two — and the regulator will find it that way. A guard sized from a catalogue, fitted to the nearest stock dimension, leaves the kind of fingertip gap that turns into an RIDDOR report. Either way, you've spent budget and you're still exposed.
Bespoke machine guarding is fabricated to the actual machinery footprint, the actual safety distances called out in your risk assessment, and the actual access requirements of your maintenance routine. It costs more than a stock guard. It costs less than a HSE improvement notice and the production downtime that follows.
Our role is precise. The risk assessment, mesh-aperture selection, safety-distance specification and interlock requirements belong to your safety consultant or machine supplier. We take that specification and fabricate it — accurately, traceably, by coded welders, in steel that will outlast the equipment it protects.
Bespoke steel safety guarding manufactured in our Leeds workshop and installed on site UK-wide. Every guard is sized, drilled and finished to the drawing pack you provide — or to the dimensions agreed at site survey.
Permanent enclosures around moving parts, nip points, rotating shafts and hazardous areas. Fabricated from welded mesh, perforated plate, expanded metal or solid steel sheet — the substrate is selected at design stage based on the hazard, sightline requirements, and material handling around the machine. Bolted to floor anchors, structural steel, or directly to the machine frame as the specification requires.
Modular steel mesh fencing systems to create exclusion zones around larger machinery, robot cells, CNC areas and automated lines. Standard panel runs with welded mesh infill, access gates with lockable hinges, and provision for interlocked-door integration. Designed to clear safety distances per the relevant standards while leaving operator and maintenance access workable.
Guard structures designed and pre-drilled for interlocked door fitment. We fabricate the steel; the interlock devices themselves — magnetic, RFID, or coded-key — are typically specified and supplied by your machine supplier or safety systems integrator, and we'll work to their datasheet. Reception of the parts, mounting alignment, and structural prep is on us.
Guards that need to move with the work — sliding access panels, hinged inspection doors, removable side panels for tooling change-overs. We design the joint detail, hinge or runner specification, and lockable retention so the guard returns to the right position every time it goes back on.
Where a stock guard simply doesn't fit — older machinery, awkward installations, retrofit work around existing pipework, conveyors or building columns — we fabricate from first principles. Site survey, sketch on the day, CAD drawing within a week, fabricated and fitted to suit your shutdown window.
Standards: Manufactured to client specification in accordance with relevant safety standards (Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, PUWER 1998). Welded by coded operatives certified to BS EN ISO 9606. Fabrication tested to BS 4872.
Scope & responsibility. We fabricate to the specification you supply. The safety assessment — risk analysis, guard category selection, mesh aperture per safety distance, interlock category — is the responsibility of your safety consultant or the machine manufacturer. Where you don't yet have a specification, we'll happily refer you to safety consultants we've worked with before.
Send us the risk assessment, drawing pack, or photos and approximate dimensions. We’ll come back with questions inside a day.
Free, no obligation. We measure on site, check substrate fixings, agree access constraints and any shutdown windows.
Drawings and a written, itemised quote — typically inside three working days. Specification revisions handled before fabrication.
Built in our Leeds workshop by coded welders. Trial-fit checks where geometry is tight. Galvanised or painted to spec.
Fitted on site by our team — to suit your shutdown window, weekend, or planned maintenance break. Sign-off on completion.
We don't second-guess your safety engineer. The spec is the spec. We build to it accurately, every time.
Every weld done by an operative certified to BS EN ISO 9606. Welder tickets and weld records available with the delivery.
Planned maintenance window? Bank holiday weekend? Quiet shift overnight? We work around production.
Workshop in Leeds; installation crews travel for the right project. We've worked on commercial sites the length of the country.
Workshop in Leeds; installation UK-wide. For West Yorkshire sites we typically install inside two weeks of sign-off. For sites further afield — Manchester, Cheshire, the North East, the Midlands — we coordinate the install with your shutdown window and travel as required.
Outside West Yorkshire? Get in touch — we deliver and install nationwide for commercial fabrication projects.
No. Risk assessment and guard specification — including hazard analysis, safety distances, mesh aperture selection, and interlock category — are the responsibility of a qualified safety consultant or the machine manufacturer. We fabricate the guarding to the specification provided. If you don’t yet have a safety consultant, we’ll happily refer you to ones we’ve worked with.
Yes. We routinely install during planned shutdowns — bank holidays, weekends, overnight maintenance windows, summer breaks. We discuss installation timing at the quoting stage so the production schedule isn’t disrupted. For larger installations we’ll phase the work to keep critical equipment running.
Mesh aperture is dictated by the safety distance from the hazard point per BS EN ISO 13857. Common apertures are 12×12mm (very close to hazard), 20×20mm, 25×25mm, 40×40mm and 50×50mm. The risk assessment will specify which is required at each guard location — we fabricate to that spec. Welded mesh, woven mesh and perforated plate are all available.
We fabricate the guard structure with the interlock mounting pre-drilled and prepared. The interlock devices themselves — magnetic, RFID, coded key, or trapped-key systems — are typically specified and supplied by the machine supplier or safety integrator. We’ll work to their installation datasheet to ensure the mechanical fit is right.
Manufactured to client specification in accordance with the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and PUWER 1998 (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations). All welding is performed by operatives certified to BS EN ISO 9606. Fabrication is tested to BS 4872. Where specific standards apply to the guard category — BS EN ISO 14120 for fixed and movable guards, for example — we build to those specifications.
Hot-dip galvanising for harsh environments and outdoor installations; powder coating in any RAL colour for indoor visual consistency; primed-and-painted finishes for retrofit work where colour matching to existing equipment matters. Stainless steel is available for food-grade or wash-down environments at additional cost.
From signed quote to delivered guard is typically three to five weeks for standard fabrications. Site survey takes a few days to schedule, CAD drawings and a written quote follow in around three working days. For urgent jobs around imminent HSE inspections or insurance audits we can prioritise — flag the deadline at first contact.
Rooftop safety railing installation for a Royal Mail delivery office — delivered, fitted and signed off inside the agreed weekend window.
Commercial safety fabrication
Perimeter mesh fencing and access gates installed around a CNC area during a planned summer shutdown.
Galvanised steel, modular panels
Bespoke fixed-guard enclosure around legacy plant equipment, retrofitted around existing pipework and structural steel.
Designed and installed during shutdown window
More commercial work on the Projects page.
Risk assessment, CAD pack, or just photos and approximate dimensions — we’ll come back with a written quote inside three working days. Site survey is free and we’ll work around your shutdown window.
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