Industrial workplace settings like warehouses, plants, and manufacturing centers are notoriously noisy places. Excess noise in the workplace can be very harmful to the health and wellness of the facility’s employees, not to mention detrimental to productivity levels. Industrial curtains can solve the problem of dangerous noise levels in the workplace. Singer Safety has been a leader in the industrial barrier industry since 1950. We create products specifically designed to increase workplace safety and productivity. Industrial curtains are a versatile, affordable, and customizable option for all sorts of businesses. Singer Safety’s expert team can help guide you toward the right products for your business.
In this article, we will define what industrial curtains are, what they do, and explore how they can benefit your facility.
What are Industrial Curtains?
They can also enclose specific areas to dampen sound or contain harmful chemicals, paint fumes, or sparks. They are designed to be easy to move, store, assemble, and reassemble when needed. Singer Safety’s industrial curtains are installed with our signature gliding track system, making the partitions a breeze to move. Singer Safety offers curtains in a variety of colors, opacities, lengths, and widths. We can even print your company’s logo on the curtains.
Applications for Industrial Curtains
Singer Safety has several different styles of industrial curtains to choose from, depending on your needs. Some of our most popular styles are highlighted below.
Around Loud and/or Dangerous Machinery
You can hang the Weld-Vision series curtains around welding, cutting, and grinding machine workstations to promote safety. Made of your choice of cotton duck, TempTex, or TransVue Vinyl, we hang these curtains with a gliding track system that makes arranging and rearranging a breeze. They can also be connected to create larger curtain walls with Singer Safety’s Add-A-Panel-Clips. They can even be moved from job site to job site. Unlike permanent walls, Weld-Vision curtains provide ventilation and airflow. Hanging these heavy-duty curtains around hazardous equipment improves the overall safety of your warehouse or plant. They also improve safety for the employees.
Creating Privacy
Singer Safety’s privacy curtains can be used to create partitions in an open-concept space. These are perfect for making designated locker rooms, office spaces, and workstations. They come in varying heights, with the tallest being twelve feet, so you can maximize privacy for your workers. These curtains are completely opaque, which helps decrease excess sound and echo, and you can assemble and disassemble them quickly. Curtain walls are also much more cost-effective than building permanent walls.
Partitioning Workspaces
Privacy curtains often increase productivity when they separate workstations, as more tasks can be done simultaneously without disruption. Using curtain walls to separate workspaces also helps decrease the amount of loud, excess noise in a warehouse or plant. Echoes and reverb from heavy machinery can bounce off hard surfaces and create a distracting, uncomfortable work environment for employees. Singer Safety’s Super-Vision curtains come in a variety of colors with clear panels to make it easy to see what is happening inside. The hardware on these curtains includes heavy-duty Velcro® strips to create curtain walls and keep objects and materials from leaving their designated workstations.
Dampening Sound
OSHA’s workplace noise guidelines state that workers should not be exposed to noise at or over 85 decibels averaged over eight hours at a time without a hearing conservation program. Singer Safety’s curtain wall applications can help decrease the decibels in your warehouse, factory, or manufacturing plant by containing the excessive noise caused by heavy machinery and the loud nature of warehouse buildings. When used in tandem with Singer Safety’s noise dampening products, such as acoustic foam, quilted fiberglass panels, and ceiling baffles, curtain walls can significantly improve the acoustics and sound quality in your workplace.
Protecting Workers
When in a workplace with excessive loud noise, workers run the risk of suffering from permanent hearing loss. This is especially true in industrial work settings. A good rule of thumb recommended by OSHA is helpful for assessment. If an employee cannot hear another employee from three feet away without shouting, the workplace is too loud. Not only is this noise detrimental physically, but it takes a mental toll as well. Loud sounds can cause serious stress, which decreases worker productivity and motivation. Separating workspaces with curtain walls benefits workers by dampening the sound, allowing them to focus on their jobs, multitask better, and communicate more efficiently with their coworkers.
Increases Productivity
Creating separate workstations with Singer Safety’s line of industrial curtains helps warehouses run more efficiently by allowing workers to perform multiple tasks or jobs at the same time. For example, you can install a Weld-Vision curtain wall to contain and protect workers from the hazards of welding equipment near a partitioned-off area designated for painting. This allows companies to take full advantage of their square footage and host multiple operations simultaneously. Curtain walls also benefit workers by offering more privacy and curtailing harsh noise, which has been shown to increase employee productivity. Because Singer Safety’s curtains are installed on a gliding track system, they offer great flexibility. They can be reoriented again and again to suit your plant’s specific and ever-changing needs. They come in many different colors. This offers employers the opportunity to streamline operations by color coding various tasks, equipment, and job sites.
Controlling the Environment
Dust, debris, light, and temperature all contribute to the overall productivity of a warehouse or plant. Singer Safety’s Environmental Series curtains are especially helpful when it comes to controlling temperature in a particular part of the workplace, as well as serving as a barrier for harmful contaminants. Protecting workers and expensive equipment from the elements cuts long-run costs and keeps employees comfortable, especially on job sites that face exposure.
Outfit Your Workplace with Singer Safety’s Industrial Curtains
When it comes to industrial work, productivity and safety are the cornerstones of creating the ideal work environment. Singer Safety is a known leader in the industrial barrier industry, and our products are supremely beneficial when it comes to maximizing output and keeping workers comfortable. Our vinyl industrial curtain walls are easy to assemble and we can customize them to fit your particular space. They are easy to clean and maintain, and unlike fixed walls, you can move them as often as your needs require. Our curtains come with a 5-year warranty, and our experienced staff are available to help you choose which curtain system would work best for you. Contact us today to ask questions and find out more about how our products can benefit your business.
