Stop rollaways in their tracks
Vehicle rollaways are a significant safety hazard on site. With vehicles often overloaded with heavy equipment, braking systems often wear quickly and are their efficiency is then compromised.
With safety being critical to success on mine sites, the potential of these hazards must be addressed before they become a real time issue.
Braking Innovations has been a visionary of automotive brake products for eleven years, developing industry solutions for the global market. With a large customer base across both recreational four-wheel drives and commercial vehicles, the company continues to provide unique solutions.
Braking Innovations identified the problem of decreased efficiency and reliability in the mechanical handbrake system of overloaded vehicles. Its solution was to incorporate the advancing technology being found in new, smaller vehicles and scale it to be used on heavy commercial vehicles, leading them to develop the electric secondary park brake.
With thousands of Toyota Landcruiser 70 series vehicles being in use at work sites across Australia, Braking Innovations developed a solution to address the issue of overloaded braking systems within this model first.
The domestic version of the patented electric secondary park brake was launched in September 2022 and has sold in substantial volumes throughout Australia and globally. The technology was a finalist in the 2024 WA Work Health and Safety awards for best solution to a work health and safety risk.
The Braking Innovations solution uses electric park brake technology, combined with reengineered rear brake calipers, to work with the original equipment (OE) mechanical handbrake to double the effective park brake force.
The kit uses original pads and rotors to allow easy servicing of the vehicles. Installation is seamless, requiring changing the callipers and running the electronics to inside the vehicle.
Unlike mechanical solutions, the electric park brake uses the vehicle CANbus so that it triggers with the actuation of the hand brake lever. It also activates when the ignition is turned off, the door is opened or the seat belt is removed.
The park brake can only be deactivated with the switch when the OE handbrake is off, seat belt is on, door is closed and foot brake is engaged.
Braking Innovations has also combined the electronic secondary park brake with its rear drum to disk conversion knowledge to produce kits for Landcruiser 70 series with rear drum brakes, including the overseas six-cylinder variant, and Toyota Hilux Revo.
These revolutionary solutions increase site safety and efficiency by decreasing potential for serious injury, property and equipment damage.