The risks in the practice of different maintenance works at heights and outdoors, combine several potential risks to happen accidents that put at risk the integrity and life of the worker in maintenance work. Safety rails are a safety measure that prevents all risk of accidents at heights.
Developing any activity from two meters high is considered as a potential risk, and the implementation of a safety system that safeguards life and does not expose it to an unnecessary and clearly foreseeable risk is required. One of these measures is the adoption of safety rails, rather than the fulfillment of a norm, it is the anticipation of a possible accident.
The implementation of the system of Safety rails is due to supplying the evident need to prevent accidents and vacuum falls of workers who carry out different tasks such as cleaning, maintenance, system verification, repairs and tasks that require working directly in high areas that involve risks..
What are the life lines that can be implemented?
There are two types of lifelines, horizontal and vertical. They are made up of three fundamental parts, to guarantee their efficiency. A harness system, which at the time holds the worker, an element for connecting the harness to the line, such as a carabiner, and the anchor point to the structure. This is a set of elements that must agree so that the result and the security they provide are efficient and meet all their objectives.
The lifelines are also complementary measures to other collective security systems, for example in their vertical application, inside or outside different types of stairs, such as cat ladders, optimizing these security systems. There are several systems that can complement each other.
As an essential complement to these security systems, such as lifelines, it must be ensured that workers, whether plant-based or subcontracted, have the proper knowledge and training on their use and handling, since although they are highly reliable systems, their good use will determine much of its efficiency and the guarantee of its operation.
The company that installs these security systems must carefully analyze which is the most efficient means for each case, they are the only ones that have the technical bases, the sufficient knowledge and the appropriate experience to make this type of determination.
