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Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats
When You Hear this Mat, Get Out of There and Get Out-of There Fast!

    Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats are designed with one purpose in mind; to save lives. The typical application involves an industrial work area that otherwise appears to be normal but which is directly in an extremely dangerous fall zone where a piece of machinery or falling object can show up with no notice what-so-ever. Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats are deployed so that anyone entering that danger zone will be immediately alerted to the situation in three ways.

1. Visually, the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats are bright yellow and look vastly different than any typical flooring presenting a field of large half-round domes with tiny holes at various points. When walked upon, it feels like every thing is wrong; it is awkward and lumpy with with very good traction but totally uninviting.

2. Tactilely, the feel of the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats underfoot is so distinctive that anyone, even a rank amateur, would know instantaneously that something is amiss and that they are where they ought not to be. The message engineered into this special surface design is immediate and unmistakable, “Get the hell out’a here!”

3. Audibly, from the very first step on to any of its domed shaped surface structures the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats erupt into an annoying squeaking noise that does not stop until the user stops moving or vacates the area.

The noise producing mechanism inside the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats is as failsafe as can be in that it depends on no outside power other than the person who triggers them by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The high pitched tones of the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats is also very much on purpose. The squeaks and squeals of the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats rise above even loud booming industrial noises so common in the background areas where such mats are needed. The human ear is able to pick out those tones and the irritation they cause are more of a warning than if we were to try and compete by augmenting the sound level electronically.

(Parenthetically, we can learn the power and effectiveness of such a high pitched tone as compared to a much louder and baser sound if we turn to the recent movie “Lincoln” which tells at one point of the Lincoln – Douglas Debates. According to Doris Kerns Goodwin, an expert on Lincoln and a consultant on that film, Lincoln’s voice was one that was very high pitched and almost annoying tone, where Douglas was said to have a fabulously deep and full “basso profundo” type of vocal quality and could boom it quite loud. But, the Douglas tones did not travel beyond the first few rows of listeners when the candidates were on the stump and his message was more missed than gotten. Lincoln’s squeaky squeals and higher pitched notes, according to Ms. Goodwin, tended to float over the heads of those in attendance so that all could hear them as if they were right up front).

That is the nature of the sounds made by the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats. They are intended to be the safety warning of last resort; the warning that works when anything else might fail; ergo, failsafe. If someone were to say, “Well, I want a louder sound” we would say, “Fine, we can give you a louder sound.”  Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats can be augmented by other devices supplied by The Mat King to do just that. But, those devices will depend on electrical power to produce that louder warning. If, in the event of an electrical failure, the augmented sound is muted or even silenced as is so often seen in electrical blackouts, the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats would still be there and functional warning workers in all three ways: visually, tactilely and audibly.

The Mat King Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats can be enhanced but they can not be replaced. Can we say they are absolutely perfect? No one can. But, when saving workers’ lives is all that matters, Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats must be in place or everything that can be done to save those lives is not being done yet.

Material: Rubber

Color : Yellow

Size: 1-5/8" x 18" x 24" (41.275 mm x 457.2 mm x 609.6 mm) inclusive of plywood baker board.

Measured Drawing: Click HERE

How to make a custom Layout: Click HERE

Technical Data Sheet: Click HERE

Demonstration: Click HERE for a brief demonstration of how one of the squeaky domes works and how it sounds.

 
Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats 1-5/8" x 18" x 24"
 
Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats are deployed so that anyone entering a danger zone will be immediately alerted to the situation.
Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats 1-5/8" x 18" x 24"
 
Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats are deployed so that anyone entering a danger zone will be immediately alerted to the situation.

Freight Class: 77.5

The HS Number or Harmonized System Code Number is 401691 which corresponds to Rubber, vulcanized (other than hard rubber), floor coverings and mats, of non-cellular rubber.

Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats are packed two mats per box. Each box measures approximately 4" x 19" x 25" and weighs approximately 15 pounds.

 

 

Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats Single Mat Unit - Top view with round dome field screws attached to mounting clamps beneath. Size: 1-5/8" x 18" x 24" (41.275 mm x 457.2 mm x 609.6 mm) inclusive of plywood baker board.

Mounting Clamps
There are two Mounting Clamps supplied for each Failsafe Industrial Warning Mat. Each Mounting Clamp is approximately 1/16" x 15/16" x 3-7/8" and has two Phillips head screws already inserted in holes in the unit and each is equipped with a washer and a screw on cap.
Underside of a Mounting Clamp
Side view of Mounting Clamp installed on a Failsafe Industrial Warning Mat
     
 
A pair of Mounting Clamps in cellophane bag.
 
One Mounting Clamps ready to be installed on site by others.

Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mat Demonstration Please click on the folowing picture to see how one of the Squeaky Domes works and sounds.

Squeaky Domed Failsafe Industrial Warning Mats (Sold Only in Pairs)
Product Number Summary Description Detailed Description
Price per Mat
2 to 50 Mats      
8540-171-1824

WARNING Mat, Squeaky, 18"x24", Yellow

Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mat; 28 Yellow Rubber half-domes w/internal sounding devices; 1-5/8"x18"x24"; 7#/mat; 2/box;$/mat 2 to 50 mats (rack#: 8540-171-1824)
$475.56
52 to 100 Mats Summary Description Detailed Description
Price per Mat
8540-181-1824 WARNING Mat, Squeaky, 18"x24", Yellow Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mat; 28 Yellow Rubber half-domes w/internal sounding devices; 1-5/8"x18"x24"; 7#/mat; 2/box;$/mat 52 to 100 mats (rack#:8540-181-1824)
$384.44
102 or more mats Summary Description Detailed Description
Price per Mat
8540-191-1824 WARNING Mat, Squeaky, 18"x24", Yellow Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mat; 28 Yellow Rubber half-domes w/internal sounding devices; 1-5/8"x18"x24"; 7#/mat; 2/box;$/mat 102+ mats (rack#: 8540-181-1824)
$348.00
Prices are per mat packed two (2) mats per carton and supplied with plywood backer and mounting brackets.
Prices are exclusive of shipping. Please provide contact name, company name, contact phone and Fax numbers with destination city, state and Zip Code and quantity of mats required for custom price quotation.
Deliveries to NY, NJ or CT are suject to applicable sales tax. Please provide tax exempt certificate with purchase order.

One more time with feeling:

Thank you for your continued interest in Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats. The Mat King has subtitled this product with the phrase: When You Hear this Mat, Get Out of There and Get Out-of There Fast!

The object of this warning is strictly the person who is standing on it and is, therefore, in harm's immediate way. It is not intended to send out any kind of clarion call to the rest of his or her co-workers that he or she is in trouble. It is not there to shut down equipment. That is left to proximity switches and hidden eye curtains and the like. This is much simpler than any of those amazing and very important products.

But, what the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats do makes this product very important; perhaps even more so than the other products mentioned.

The Mat King calls it "failsafe" because even if there was an electrical failure, this product would still make its annoying high pitched warning sound. Its batteries can not wear down or go dead because it has no batteries. It depends on no outside support to perform its function save for the air in the room to transmit the sounds it generated when trod upon. Its color is yellow to serve as a visual warning that danger is here. Its texture and feeling under foot is peculiar to be immediately discernable as a place that is special even for one who is not aware of its singular purpose; i.e. to warn a person who is on it to evacuate the area immediately. And, its sound that is generated by the person who walks on it, is attention getting even if only to that one person. So, if a worker is wearing protective ear muffs that might muffle the sound of the Failsafe Domed Industrial Warning Mats, he or she will know from the message from his eyes and his feet that he or she had better Get Out of There and Get Out-of There Fast!

 

 

 
 
 

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