Practical guidance on safety netting, fall protection and compliance, written for principal contractors, site managers and roofing trades.
Fall protection on a single plot is straightforward. Fall protection across a large residential development with dozens of plots at different stages of construction at any one…
FASET accreditation is the procurement signal that has come to define competence in safety netting. It tells a principal contractor that the contractor has been independently…
Safety nets that look correctly installed can still fail to protect an operative in a fall. The reason is rarely the net itself or the anchorage. It is the clearance geometry…
Site cards have become so routine on UK construction sites that they are often treated as a procedural formality - something checked at induction, recorded on a register, and…
Fall protection on a construction site is too often treated as a reactive discipline - netting installed when the roofing gang arrives, edge protection erected when a gap becomes…
On a new build residential development, safety netting and roofing are not independent activities. They’re interdependent - the netting needs to be in place before roofing work…
Fall arrest and fall restraint are both approaches to managing the risk of falls from height, and both appear regularly in fall protection plans and method statements on…
Documentation in fall protection is not a secondary consideration. It’s the evidence that demonstrates a principal contractor’s compliance with their CDM 2015 obligations in…
When you’re appointing a safety netting contractor, the stakes are about as high as they get in construction. Safety netting is a last line of defence against fatal falls from…
Falls from height remain the single biggest cause of fatal injuries in the UK construction industry. On sites where trades are regularly working at height - roof structures, floor…
On any construction site where work is happening at height, there’s a risk of materials, tools, and debris falling to levels below. On an open rural development that risk is…
When you’re appointing a safety netting contractor, you’ll often hear references to BS EN 1263-1-2 - the British and European standard that governs the design, performance, and…
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