Retractable Belt Barriers

Retractable belt barriers, queue posts and rope barriers

Chrome and black metal queue posts

The Tensabarrier Advance queue posts are metal belt posts on a universal base, made for queue lanes that stay in place all day in front of the public. They are seen at close quarters, so the post has to sit well with the interior.

Plastic belt posts for industrial floors

The Tensabarrier Popular plastic belt posts pair a plastic post with an anti-scuff base and a choice of plain or hi-vis chevron belts. Choose them for factories, warehouses, workshops and trade counters, where the barrier marks walkways and no-go areas inside a working building and a polished metal post would be out of place.

Outdoor and heavy duty belt posts

For car parks, forecourts, festival entrances and site welfare areas, the base is the first thing to choose. Tensabarrier Outdoor posts with a fillable base are carried in empty and filled with sand or water where they will stand. Tensabarrier Heavy Duty posts sit on a solid rubber base with carry handles and stack for storage, for crews that set up and strike the same layout again and again. Where a cordon stays out after dark, the NightView reflective belt posts carry reflective webbing that returns the light of headlights and torches.

Skipper cone-top and post and base barriers

The Skipper retractable barrier is a compact tape unit that sits on top of a traffic cone, so a site that already has cones can turn any pair of them into a taped cordon. Each unit holds 9 m of high-visibility tape, with a locking button that stops the tape spooling out. On floors with no cone to hand, the Skipper post and base system gives the unit its own twist-lock post for indoor or outdoor use. For hotels, restaurants, banks and events, the premium retractable safety barrier is a post and base unit made from recycled materials, with its weight carried low in the post to resist tipping.

Wall mounted retractable belt barriers

A wall mounted retractable belt barrier fixes the tape unit to the building, for doorways, corridors, lift lobbies and aisles where a post would block the route it is meant to close. The wall mounted retractable barrier kit supplies the unit with its fixings, so one order covers one opening.

Retractable barrier kits for glass, scaffold and vehicles

Kits group a tape unit with the parts for one setting, which saves matching fixings one by one. The retractable safety barrier kits build a free-standing cordon in three sizes, and the warehouse retractable barrier kit is made up for warehouse doorways and aisles. A glass fixing kit suits shopfronts, glazed partitions and office screens. The scaffold retractable barrier kit fixes to scaffold tube, and the cord strap kit straps round pillars and trees. The vehicle safety retractable barrier kit cordons the space around a parked vehicle while it is repaired or loaded.

Rope barrier posts and ropes

The rope barrier posts are steel stanchions for front-of-house areas where the barrier is part of the look, such as hotel entrances, galleries, showrooms, restaurants and VIP areas at events. The economy barrier rope suits everyday queue lines, and the premium VIP rope is a thicker rope for red carpet and entrance displays. Rope suits a slow, formal queue, since each length is unhooked and moved by hand.

Queue barriers, site cordons and warehouse safety

Queues at airports, venues and counters

A queue lane works when the turns leave room for luggage, buggies and wheelchairs and the exit is kept apart from the entry. Moving a single belt opens or closes a lane as demand rises and falls through the day, and a sign at the lane entrance tells people which line is theirs.

Cordons around work areas on site

A site cordon has to be seen from the direction people approach, so the tape colour and printed message count for more than the post. Inside buildings under fit-out, tape on cones marks off wet screed, painting, cleaning and small task areas.

Warehouses, loading bays and vehicle work areas

In warehouses the fixing comes first, because pallet trucks and forklifts move constantly across the floor where a post would stand. Magnetic fixings hold to steel racking and vehicle bodywork, screw fixings suit a doorway that is closed every day, and tape across an aisle end tells pickers to keep out of a section being replenished or inspected.

Retractable barrier accessories

Receivers, dummy units and end points

A receiver is the far end of a Skipper tape. Dummy units are Skipper bodies with no tape, set on a cone or post where the cordon ends. The wall and magnetic receiver clips take the tape on a wall or a steel surface, and the suction pad receiver holds on glass and high gloss panels. The clamp receiver tightens onto door frames, worktops and racking, and cord strap clips loop a bungee cord round pillars, poles, trees and scaffolding.

Wall, magnetic and suction brackets

Brackets hold the tape unit itself where there is no cone or post. The wall and magnetic support brackets either screw in for permanent or semi-permanent use or hold magnetically to vehicles, shelving and other metal. The suction pad support bracket fixes to glass and high gloss surfaces and carries a full bin or dispenser.

Sign holders, bins and dispensers

The post and base collar gives a post and base unit a mounting point for extras, and the A4 sign holder clips to a tape unit or dummy unit to show a warning, a direction or a notice. The mounted recycle bins and warehouse recycle bins come with stickers for each waste stream. The PPE safety dispenser holds ear plugs, safety glasses, hair nets and shoe covers. A sanitiser bracket carries a pump bottle of sanitiser or sunscreen at a site entrance or kitchen door.