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Walkovers can protect green roofs against footfall

Walkovers

Walkovers or Step Overs often gain attention for their ability to protect individuals, but they are just as important for protecting your roof – particularly if it is sensitive to human footfall. In the case of green roofs, it may be preferable to make sure that maintenance workers do not trample any shrubs or grasses […]

Edge protection a must at Manchester Creative and Media Academies

Guardrails

Edge protection takes on an important new meaning at Manchester’s new Creative and Media Academies, as roof rails and safety barriers will be needed to keep students safe on the new building’s eco roof. A £38 million construction scheme is currently underway to create a shared campus to house two 750-place single-sex academies. The project […]

Roof rails can support green construction targets

Guardrails

There are plenty of ways in which roof rails can help to meet green construction targets – which could prove important as the Green Construction Board delivers plans to make the UK’s built environment more carbon-neutral. Businesses are being consulted by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to make sure the GCB’s proposals match […]

Walkovers can prevent away-from-edge falls

Walkovers

The importance of walkovers on fragile roofs has been highlighted by two recent cases in the south of England where workers were severely injured after falling through skylights. Although the incidents happened in 2009 and 2011, both recently led to prosecution, prompting the Health & Safety Executive to warn companies about their obligations to prevent […]

Edge protection is not only for altitude

Guardrails

Edge protection provides an important level of protection at height, as roof rails prevent individuals from falling and hurting themselves. However, it’s not only at high altitudes where edge protection can be an important addition to your walkways and platforms. Even close to the ground, guard rails can ensure pedestrians do not enter dangerous areas, […]

Top Fix Evorail system ensures edge protection for solar panel maintenance workers

Guardrails

We recently fitted our Top Fix Evorail system to a property in order to provide essential edge protection during and after work to fit solar panels to the roof. Any work carried out at height is a safety risk – and the Health & Safety Executive has an ongoing focus on working at height – […]

Holistic edge protection for sloped roofs

Walkovers

Edge protection for sloped roofs can be difficult, particularly if you need to provide a safe means of regularly accessing the roof right up to its edge. However, by using several of our roof rails and walkovers together, you can put in place a route to the edge that does not need individuals to step […]

Safety ladders can reach previously inaccessible roofs

Safety Ladders

Safety ladders are an ideal way of providing access to roofs that might be difficult to reach using conventional ladders. Many buildings do not have a single, flat roof, instead rising to several different levels due to lift shafts, air outflows and other essential components in their construction. Where access to the highest points on […]

Roof Guardrails keep green roofs safe and sustainable

Guardrails

Roof rails can help you to protect your employees while also helping the environment, if you decide to create a green roof anywhere on your premises. However roof edge protection still needs to be considered. Evo Safety Solutions are a one stop shop supplying every type of roof safety equipment required to comply with the […]

Edge protection for flat and sloping roofs

Guardrails

Edge protection is important on roofs of all types, if work is to be carried out on them that lasts more than a few minutes at a time. However, the exact type of edge protection you need could depend on the roof itself – and particularly whether the roof is flat or sloped. On a […]

Roof rails prepare for slips, trips and falls

Guardrails

Roof rails can not only help to keep your employees safe; they may also stop you from facing a costly compensation claim. Slips, trips and falls are common reasons behind workplace injuries – and the compensation claims that follow – but when they happen at height, they can be particularly serious. By fitting roof rails, […]

Radius guardrails – safe and aesthetic

Guardrails

Radius guardrails are a perfect combination of extra safety and aesthetics. Radius guardrails achieve this by curving away from the edge, creating an even greater safety buffer from the roof edge and giving you a little extra peace of mind. But it’s not purely about safety – if you need edge protection on a low […]

Cable trays cater for future IT investments

Cable Trays

Cable trays are the perfect way to future-proof IT installations, by ensuring more cables can be added as networks grow. Some networks use closed pipes or tubes to carry cables around premises – but these can be difficult to access when more wires need to be added. With cable trays, the new infrastructure can simply […]

Walkovers provide a bridge over troubled water pipes

Walkovers

Walkovers have plenty of uses, from covering the gap between two adjacent roofs, to simply marking out where it is safe to stand. But placing walkovers over pipework can help to avoid one of the most common causes of injury in the workplace – trips. No matter how many times you warn employees of trip […]

Guardrails help roofers avoid falls from height

Guardrails

Guardrails can protect people working on roofs from one of the Health and Safety Executive’s greatest concerns – falls from height. The HSE continues to focus on falls from height in workplaces of all kinds as a key area of its activity. By fitting guardrails to any projects based on rooftops or other exposed, high-elevation […]

Man anchors offer safety reassurance in high winds

Mobile Man Anchors

Man anchors can help individuals working at height to stay safe during the winter months, when it may not be preferable to install guardrails. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, many buildings in Scotland are designed to cope with strong winds, but the same may not be true in the north of England. However, both regions of the […]

Match the guardrail to the job in hand

Guardrails

Whatever your requirements for guardrails, AKM Fabrications can offer a wide range of guardrail products and solutions that will more than match your individual requirements. In particular, AKM’s Evorail Range of guardrail systems offers a choice of five models, starting with the Standard rail – a low-cost freestanding guard rail that matches the majority of […]

The mobile Man Anchor – combining safety and user freedom of movement

Mobile Man Anchors

Safety and freedom of movement – combining these two has always been a challenge to those designing and building safety equipment; but AKM’s brilliantly conceived Mobile Man Anchor provides an ideal and cost-effective solution to maximising worker movement without compromising on individual safety. Easy to carry (even to the most apparently inaccessible or awkward places), […]

CE Marking for Mobile Man Anchors

Mobile Man Anchors

We are pleased to announce that after comprehensive testing by SATRA Technology Centre our Mobile Man Anchor Range of products now conform with the essential requirements of the applicable EC directives. Both our 6 Leg (260kg) and 8 Leg (340kg) products were subject to: 1. Testing to standard EN 795:1996 (+A1:2000) 2. Examination of the […]

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