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Safety Films
bringing safety to glass
Cooltone provides a range of safety films to deal with the specific nature of any threat. From film designed to bring old glass up to current Australian Standard (AS1288), to bomb blast film for high-threat public spaces, there is an advanced solution to solve your risk assessment needs.
‘Duty of Care' is a statement that is used more than ever in modern society. From simple awareness to possible danger to complex threat assessment, building managers must consider the safety of people in and around the built environment.
Glass is often considered the weakest point in a building. Windows that break in extreme climatic conditions or as a result of terrorist action can cause major damage and serious injury. Flying sharp shards of glass can be avoided by installing clear safety window film designed to maintain the panel of glass in one piece following impact.
The adhesive technology allows the film to bond tightly to the glass and therefore holds the shattered glass together when broken.
Safety Film for glass
Providing protection for you and your family.
- Safety Code - All glass in any building is required to comply with a safety code.
- AS1288 - This Australian Standard applies to all glass in buildings.
- AS2208 - This Australian Standard applies to glass and human impact i.e. safety of people in buildings.
- Safety at Home - Safety Film on your windows makes your home safer whether it be reducing the risk of cuts from broken glass or flying glass when the glass is broken.
- Storm Safety - Applying Safety Film to your glass makes your glass less lethal in the event of high winds and storms reducing the risk of flying glass and therefore protecting you and others. The recent freak tornado in Lennox Head is a perfect example of this.
- Bomb Blast - Although we do not live in a high risk area for bombs blasts, home and workplace explosions still occur. Safety Film on the glass protects the people from flying shards of glass which can be potentially lethal.
- Food Processing Plants - Food manufacturing and packaging factories have an obligation to the public to prevent any foreign matter entering their foods. Safety Film can be applied to all glass around these areas thus removing the risk of glass entering the products if a pane of glass is broken.
- Pool Ballustrading - The pool area is a perfect example of where glass can be broken easily. Applying safety film to the glass fencing reducing the risk of not only personal injury but glass entering the pool if broken. If broken glass enters the pool it is almost impossible to find - the pool will need to be emptied to remove all glass pieces and ensure safety of swimmers.
- Balcony Ballustrades - Safety Film applied to glass ballustrades on a balcony maintains the views yet protecting the people on boths sides if the glass broke. In the event of a breakage, the glass would be held together by the film with no pieces flying off down below into the path of innocent bystanders.
- Nickel Sulphide Inclusions - This compound is added to glass to make it safer. It is done in a process called 'toughening'. Toughened glass when broken breaks in to thousands of tiny pieces thus removing the risk of dangerous sharp shards of glass. However this process makes the glass more unstable and at risk of exploding. Applying safety film will hold the glass together if this happens.
- School & Nursing Home Safety - Schools and Nursing Homes are 2 places where people are prone to falls and could fall into glass. Safety Film on the glass prevents them getting cut if they fell into the glass. The Safety Film is applied to the inside of the glass and therefore protecting them from the broken glass on the outside of the pane.
- Family Day Care Safety - All Family Day Cares have safety requirements in regards to glass. Click here to find out more.
