Why Bollards Often Get Noticed Only After Something Goes Wrong

If you spend any time around warehouses, loading yards, or commercial sites, you start to notice how much happens around vehicles and people sharing the same space. Forklifts move in and out. Delivery trucks reverse into bays. Staff walk between buildings. Contractors come and go. Most of the time, everything runs smoothly. And when it does, safety features like bollards barely register. It’s usually only after a close call — or worse, an accident — that people really start paying attention to them. I’ve seen plenty of sites where bollards were installed years ago and then quietly forgotten. They’re there, doing their job in the background, until a vehicle clips one, or a walkway starts feeling unsafe. That’s often when questions start getting asked about whether the setup is actually working as well as it should. There’s a common assumption that installing bollards is a simple job. Drill the hole. Pour the concrete. Bolt the post in place. Job done. In reality, it’s rarely that straig...