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Health And Safety Concerning Construction Safety Nets
How much do you know about Construction Safety Nets? Do you often work at heights? We all know what will happen if we fall. Even if you love working at heights, you'll still suffer the same injury or death.
Falling from heights is one of the most common occurrences in any construction work. The very nature of our work means we often build upwards and have to use scaffolding and access ways to build the next level. That’s a given, but are we always best covered when working at heights? Is safety netting always the appropriate choice?
Very often it is. Do you know anything about it though? Construction Safety Net, for the most part, is made of polypropylene in a square mesh. This is because square mesh offers greatest spread of weight in the event of a fall, while polypropylene is both enormously tough, but does not absorb water.
Another major consideration of Construction Safety Nets is that they are durable. When nets fail (which they do vary rarely, thankfully) it’s usually because of one of two factors. The first of these factors is a distressed net. If you are working at heights, you might not always consider what you drop. Drop a hammer, for example, and you might get a little panicky. But what about that bit of salad from your lunchtime burger? Could it contain a mild acid? Could it have landed on your net and weakened it? This might seem like an extreme example, but it has happened. No-one can watch the whole net the whole time, so weekly tests are essential. This involves dropping a bag of sand onto the net in various areas and looking for weaknesses. The drop test recommendations can be got from your suppl ier or H&S officer.
The second most common reason for net failure is the tie-cord. This is often the strongest part of the net, but can sometimes, if not properly used, be the weakest. Drop-tests will help here, as well as following manufacturer’s guidance when tying off.
It’s also worth remembering that the higher you are, the wider your nets need to be. For up-to-date info, your supplier, again, will be the best source, and will hopefully have current Construction Safety Nets regulation at point of sale. Remember to file the paperwork in the appropriate place, just like any other health and safety consideration.
Construction Safety Nets are not just for you. The role of Construction Safety Nets is to save those on the ground as well. For this reason, it’s not simply personnel netting which needs to be used. Safety netting is similarly useful. The right combination of correctly placed safety netting and ample clearance around a site will effectively negate any risk to anyone working at ground level.
Testing and inspection is also an essential part of implementing safety netting. A once weekly inspection is recommended, as well as after any incident which may have an adverse effect on the netting. This could include any scrap metal caught by the Construction Safety Nets, or a relocation of the netting; 99 times out of 100 you won’t find anything on your inspection, but given the nature of the risk, namely death, it’s well worth checking, wouldn’t you say?

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