Structural roof access plan.

Why install permanent safety equipment and fall protection on your roof? Every time someone works on your roof, whether it’s one of your employees or an outside contractor, you can be assured that the appropriate safety and fall protection systems are in place. You don’t have to install and pay for new safety measures every time someone inspects, maintains or works on your roof. It also reduces the chance for accidents and damage claims against your company.

Contact our safety director if you’d like a cost benefit analysis for installing permanent fall protection equipment at your facility. Call 319-363-2073 or e-mail.

Steps for establishing a permanent structural roof access plan.

• Hazard assessment. We assess your roof to identify hazards associated with employees and contractors accessing your roof. Your roof is evaluated for fall prevention systems, including guardrails, toeboards, barricades, parapet walls, hoistways, safety gates and controlled access zones, including perimeter control lines and warning signage. Personal fall arrest systems, as well as your general maintenance requirements, are analyzed for work station positioning using mono-point anchors, retractable lifelines, positioning and PFAS harnesses and vertical or horizontal lifelines. Fixed- and portable-ladder vertical access, horizontal catwalks, ramps and stairs are also considered.
  
  
• Fall safety engineering. We contract with safety engineering firms to perform hazard analysis surveys and prepare plans, specifications, details and drawings for structural fall protection and roof access plans. We work with an engineer and facility manager to establish needs for your building so a fall protection and access plan can be developed complete with construction drawings. Upon completion, we provide stamped, as-built drawings.

• Installation. Safety equipment is installed to adhere to the engineering specifications.
  
  
• Training. We train you and your employees on the use and maintenance of your permanent safety systems so a competent person can access the roof.