Australian Water Management Review Vol. 1 2014 | Page 170

Swivelpole ™ High-Safety Luminaire Support SYSTEM Traditionally, light maintenance is a dangerous and time consuming job. Faulty lights are often found in elevated positions within hazardous areas that require, at minimum, the use of scaffolding and a fall arrest system. The Swivelpole™ Retrofit System is a unique solution to these added OH&S requirements, helping to make light maintenance a less complex and costly task. The lighting system allows for safe and efficient conversion of non-lowering poles to a SwivelpoleTM, enabling an operator to either reuse the existing luminaires or replace them with the latest lighting technology. The globally-patented swivel mechanism enables an operator to lower, and rotate, a light fitting to a safe working level in minutes, without the need for ladders, scaffolding or fall arrest systems. Retrofitting a non-lowering pole can on average be done for less than half the cost of changing a lamp, compared with the traditional method. Once fitted with a Swivelpole™, a company can reduce its ongoing lighting maintenance cost by an average of 95 per cent, according to real life case studies. With over 300,000 installations in some of the world’s most remote and challenging locations, Swivelpole™ has become the luminaire support solution of choice for industry leaders. Prior to the retrofit, electricians had to use elevated work pla Ff