High on safety
Crane controls designer NTK is providing an advanced new safety system for tower cranes – which can be recognised easily by the company’s distinctive crane cabs with their circular or oval cab windows.
Crane controls designer NTK is providing an advanced new safety system for tower cranes – which can be recognised easily by the company’s distinctive crane cabs with their circular or oval cab windows.
Zarges’ new Reachmaster mobile scaffold tower is suitable for a range of jobs, from working on low ceilings or decorating internal walls, to maintaining the outside of tall buildings.
Easi-Dec has developed a Ladder Accessory Kit, to provide a safe and secure solution for working at height.
As part of the DBI-SALA portfolio, Capital Safety’s new harness incorporates many of the features from its existing range.
Keepmoat – a national housing and regeneration specialist – has contracted the Gateshead branch of Deborah Services Ltd (DSL) hire and sales division to supply vital work-at-height safety equipment to the new £11.4 million Extra Care scheme in Sunderland.
GPC, along with its factory partner Fort Jason, can now offer UK manufactured warehouse steps, but more importantly ranges that have been externally certified to EN-131.
Nationwide Platforms says it has become the first access hire company to develop and introduce a secondary guarding system designed to prevent a trapping or crushing incident before a collision can occur.
JSP has launched a system to inspect and keep track of its height safety equipment, giving a company complete control of its assets and allowing it to quickly cost out jobs, take inventories, prevent loss and comply with safety regulations.
Safety equipment such as fall arrestors must work perfectly every time they are called into action, so they must be made to the highest standards of manufacture, tested and certified. Only then will users have confidence wearing them.
Slips, trips, and falls are the third leading cause of missed work days, Wearwell Europe says.
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