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Posted By asdfgh
I could do with a little advice regarding working at height from our learned colleagues. I am a Health and Safety Manager for a medium sized construction company. I currently have two contracts that require some extra repair work to similar roofs. The work involves a guy going up onto the roof and carrying out short duration, simple fabrication / repair work in both instances.
The problem is that, although access to both jobs is to be by 'cherry picker / scissor lift, the arrangements for edge protection would be almost non-existant, because they would have to step outside of the working platform to carry out the minor tasks. They would have harnesses on and clipped to the cherry picker, and I know that they shouldn't be stepping out of the cage, but there is nowhere to clip on to on each of the roofs.....what do I do. Even if there was a cherry picker that had the reach to be able to position over the roof, the operative would still have to get out of the cherry picker to do the task. Any comment / advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Steve
(I had trouble at register stage, hence I have a daft user name)
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Posted By Sylvia Tyler
Is it a flat roof or a roof where a portable anchor can be put on? What distance from the edge will the work be carried out? There are devices that can be put on to the roof and used to clip on to. But if you are working on the edge of the roof this would not be suitable. Most Harness's are not suitable where the distance you might fall is less than 3metres as the op will hit the ground before it stops them, so again inertia type-short harness if you have to rely on this. A
However - are you not putting up edge protection because it hasn't been costed for and it would not be reasonable to pay the price, as the hierachy is to put edge protection up, or use a working platform before considering the use of harness. There are a number of systems, easy-edge and Combi edge protection that will clip to the edge of a roof and my advice would be to use edge protection - even for short duration work.
I'm not in the office until Monday - but could look to see if I have contact number for the anchor systems if you are unable to locate a supplier.
But remember - the hierachy of controls for work at height.
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Posted By Ron Hunter
You rightly identify that stepping out of the MEWP cage cannot be justified if at the roof edge.(Presumably there is no other means of access to the roof - shame on the building designer!)Are these flat roofs?If the boom arrangement allowed for centering over the roof so that the risk of fall from height is eliminated (you don't say how wide it is), then the operative could set up one of the commercially available temporary anchor systems (such as advertised by 'Safesite' in the October issue of the Safety & Health Practitioner)whilst remaining clipped on to one or other at all times. You will have to avoid any 'pendulum' effect as a result of falls from the edge, and think about means of rescue!
Try and urge your client to install edge or fall protection system - at least a centre-line anchor system.
Check the SWL of your MEWP for man, anchor system and work materials, etc. Some training on the system will be required.
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