Overlooked Rooftop Risky Areas

 

During a construction, the project manager is required to employ ardency and ensure that all the employees be it they are walking on the rooftop or they are working on the rooftop are safe and free from falls and injuries. Safety rail should be considered as they have the potential of protecting the employees and preventing falls. In most cases, you will find the rooftop edges being railed more and managers tend to forget that there are other areas on the rooftop that demands railing as well. Therefore, ensure to follow the points below as they pinpoint areas where rooftop guardrails are required apart from the rooftop edges.

 

First, the hatchway is one of the most overlooked areas and there are so many people who have been falling through the hatchway and rescuing a lot of injuries. The hatchway is normally called the skylight and it's an opening on the roof. There is therefore need for you to keep the hatchway protected at all times so as to prevent falls and injuries. As you consider protecting the hatchway, you should ensure to educate the employees on how to use its access point. In most cases, hatchway falls are recorded when employees try using the access point.

 

The second fundamental area that needs your concentration is the rooftop construction site. When working on the rooftop, you are prone to have numerous holes and even working materials. All these materials and holes are prone to causer trips, falls and injuries. There is need to keep the areas where cables are open or even pipes protected as well as areas where the there are holes.

 

There will always be a time when the rooftop will have different levels and these are the levels that you need to rail and protect employees from falls. In most cases, an employee might be absent minded and where they are concentrating on other things, they might miss to notice the different levels or the uneven roof levels and end up falling. It is where there is rooftop guardrails that the employee gets to stop hence being prevented from falling or getting injured. For more ideas about roofing, visit https://www.britannica.com/technology/roofing-tile.

 

The last but not the least, there is need for you to consider protecting the ladders and their access points. In most cases, rooftop fall cases occur as people try accessing the rooftop through the ladder. It deems fit that you educate your employees and have them understand the safety ways of using ladders. Also, you need to ensure that there is roof railing on the ladder as well as on the access points.