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Posted By Brian Welch
Ladies an Gents,
Just moved into a new facility which has a steel stair case out of the plant room that has a three galvanised tube guard rail system (top, middle and bottom) to protection you from falling, good so far, however guard rail between tubes is not meshed. The problem I see is that if you fell head first down the top flight of stairs, there is a risk you would shoot straight throw the gaps between either the bottom and middle tube or the middle and top tube and then plunge 10 meters to the floor below.
Can anyone point me to a BS, ACOP or accepted practice that would require mesh panels to be fitted?
Brian
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Posted By Konstanty Budkiewicz
In BS 5395-3:1985, at page 17, Figure 5 depicts what you are proposing as being only provided if necessary (by ecxception). To me that means you have a particular problem area where debris, tools etc could fall. Earlier the BS at page 15, para 9, makes reference to 100mm high edge protection as being the recognised means of preventing slippage under the bottom rail.
I suggest that you ensure that edge protection is installed, confirm that the tradesmen are wearing suitable footwear and conduct a tool box talk on stairway traffic custom and practice. We recently, went through this process after a number of office staff reported slipping on stairways when running down and up stairways and particularly when carrying equipment and not using the hand rail. I remind you that the BS considers the handrail to be the primary means of arresting a slip-related fall.
As you infer falls are foreseeable, and persons should not negotiate stairs without due caution. But I suggest that mesh infill is unnecessary expenditure at this point.
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Posted By Larry Shannon
Nothing to add , other than the reply was very reasonable and sensible .
Larry
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Posted By Brian Welch
Konstanty,
Thanks for that, BS 5395-3:1985 Stairs, ladders and walkways lead me BS EN ISO 14122-2-2001 Part 2: Working platforms and walkways, which then lead me to Part 3: Stairways, stepladders and guard-rails.
I now have lots of reading to do...
thanks again
Brian
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