Practical guidance on safety netting, fall protection and compliance, written for principal contractors, site managers and roofing trades.
The interface between scaffold and safety netting is one of the more underrated coordination points on a construction site. The two systems share physical space, share fixing…
Fall protection on UK construction sites is most often discussed as a subcontractor concern. The safety netting contractor is procured, the install is scheduled, the certificate…
A safety net that has caught a falling person has done its job. It has prevented an injury that would, in the absence of the net, have ranged from serious to fatal. But the net…
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…
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