Safety at Height - Fall Protection Safety

The companies in Sydney have become very particular about their employee's safety especially those working at the site, hence they have developed the mechanism of ensuring that all the sites where the employees have to work at heights need to fully protected by equipment’s that support fall protection.

The workers who are working at the construction site of huge big buildings should be given Roof Safety. Talking about fall protection it is a mechanism of protecting the workers from falling or preventing any such incidence of falling in order to avoid any type of injury. Fall protection is used when someone is working at heights or working at an edge of a building, it is also used to give Roof Safety.

There are four types of fall protection these are fall elimination, fall prevention, Fall Arrest, and Administrative Controls.

Talking about each of these methods first one is Fall elimination this method is the most preferred method to avoid any type of fall hazards. This is basically a way of completing any task without being at the heights and without any risk.

Fall Prevention, in this method guardrails, are used to prevent the person from falling from heights, barricades are being used to prevent any type of unwanted falling and provide support at the week edges. Use of fall restraint makes the person alert of avoiding the situation of falling

Fall arrest is the situation where the person is being stopped from being fallen.

Administrative controls happen when a person is being stopped from going to the danger zone and there is safety guard of person who is escorting the area and ensuring that no workers fall prey of falling or coming on the edges.

Talking about the roof safety few things need to be made very clear, these are the basics to ensure there is no causality happening.

• Roof Stability –The stability of the roof is very important so that it can handle the weight of the human being

• Ladder Security & Placement –It’s important to check whether the ladder that is being used is securely placed or not.

• Weather Conditions –The roof should be strong enough to handle all types of weather and should not be very slippery.

• Roof Holes – Open roof holes should be avoided as they can cause deadly accidents.

• Edge Awareness –One should be well aware of the edges and losing control over the edges can be very problematic.

• Improper Training – The employees should be given proper training of the rooftop.

• Improper Use of protection equipment: - If the equipment that can prevent the fall are not used properly then accidents are more likely to happen.

• Uneven Pitch: - If the building is constructed on an uneven pitch then the rooftop will also get affected, hence it’s very important to have the building built on an even land.

Fall protection and Roof safety both are very important while working at construction sites where the employees are working at heights above 2-3 meters above the ground risking their lives.

There are many such companies in Sydney who support the fall protection and roof safety mechanism and provide services to handle such situations.