Metal Roofing

What are the benefits or advantages in using Safety Nets as fall arrest system when working at heights?

Importantly, safety nets utilise energy absorption as the fundamental principle governing their design and performance. In the majority of situations, safety nets have distinct advantages over other forms of fall arrest. Australian standards regard nets as their "preferred method of fall arrest when working at height."

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How do safety nets meet these best-practice safety controls?

• Safety nets provide protection from fall hazards
• Safety nets separate people from the hazard
• Safety nets are an engineered control
• Safety nets change work practices
• Safety nets reduce the total reliance on fall restraint PPE
• See our Fulfilling Requirements page for details on how you can meet the legislative requirements with our system. 

Fall hazards inside a building, Water Tanks, Construction Sites

• Potential falls between roof trusses
• Construction of high strutting formwork
• Large voids and penetrations
• Between roof purlins, steel construction and bondeck formwork
• Through brittle roofs, skylights and any roof floor openings
• Safety nets can fill these gaps

Skylights

Using Skylights Nets to provide risk control as  implement measures around skylights is crucial to prevent accidents*.

Quick to install, light to carry around, less gear required and the Aperture is smaller than 100x100mm.

Aperture mesh size 60x60x5mm/ SWL 350kg/ Colour Red                                                        With Orange Fluorescent stitched edge  different sizes are available                         10x1.4m / 12x1.4m / 15x1.4m / 20x1.4m or we can make the size that you need and Free Annual UV Testing^

Equipment required:  Solar Panel Brackets fixed onto the metal roof and 22Kn Karabiners to fix the nets over the skylights.

Installation notation: This intended application and intended protection netting is only to be used as physical barrier to protect and prevent, mitigate the personnel from a fall and not to be confused with the fall arrest system which needs to be placed underneath roof of the skylights.

meets requirement of BCA part 3.9.2 and AS1170.1 as physical barrier and BS1263-1*  21Kn Karabiners must be Standard CE1019 and Metal roofing screws must at least be of Minium  and in accordance with the requirements set out in AS3566.1-2002 (Self Drilling screws
for the building and construction industries – Part 1).

• For the best rates Purchase 5 or more.
• You can Hire Skylights Nets and Standard 10x1.4m send us an email.