I am currently looking at operations within our business for when engineers access flat roof areas of property. These flat roofs can be residential and business premises. The work they undertake will only be short duration work, probably no more than 30 minutes at a time. My question is, does anyone know a suitable temporary measure that can in place? My thoughts were a safety belt with harness attached to a temporary anchor point in the building to act as a fall restraint to prevent engineers getting close to the edge. My second question is, anyone know a good supplier of these?

Hi sdeans After you've considered Rays' questions, assuming that it is genuinely not practicable to gain access in any other way, your use of an anchor point in conjunction with an "inertia reel" type fall prevention device could be acceptable. However, you must ensure that the reel cannot extend to the point that the operator can go over the edge and you will have to ensure that the anchor point is tested [see BSI] to take the foreseeable load to be imposed. Frank Hallett

Other things to consider. Any skylights nearby? I assume the roof is strong enough for a person/people to access? What about a mobile man anchor if it is strong enough.