portable stand the lightweight nature of the portable safety shield enables rapid and inexpensive set up and tear down to facilitate deployment and movement of the portable shield from one location to another by way of example the lightweight panels can be constructed from a non metallic material that is substantially lighter than steel in one embodiment the lightweight panels are constructed from a kevlar material such as a sheeted kevlar material the lightweight portable safety shield provides short term impact protection at the well site to provide well site workers with enough time to get out of harms way in the event of a problem at one of the wells the safety shield can be used for an individual operation e g a maintenance operation or it can be used in a simultaneous operations field to segregate and protect the independent operations from each other referring generally to fig1 one embodiment of a lightweight portable safety shield 20 is illustrated in this embodiment shield 20 comprises a stand or framework 22 such as a fabricated stand one or more lightweight impact panels 24 are mounted to the stand 22 the impact panels 24 can be mounted to stand 22 via a plurality of fasteners 26 which may take a variety of forms depending on.