Commercial Sports Hall - City of London Academy
Client: City of London Academy (COLA). Location: Bermondsey, London SE1 5LA. Timescale: December 2025 (ongoing).
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Protecting Your Workforce with Expert Safety Solutions
Correctly installed safety netting is what stands between a workforce and a fall. Red Safety Netting provides FASET-accredited safety netting installation to BS EN 1263-1 - supplied, rigged, inspected and handed over by qualified Safety Net Riggers for principal contractors and roofing trades nationwide.
A fall arrest net relies entirely on being rigged correctly: the right anchorage, the right tension and initial sag, the fall height kept as low as practicable, and sufficient clearance beneath so the net can deflect without striking the structure below. Get any of that wrong and the net may not perform when it matters. That is why installation should only ever be carried out by trained, competent riggers - not a general site team.
Under CDM 2015 the principal contractor must appoint competent specialists and hold evidence of safe systems of work. Our installations come with the records that demonstrate compliance: rigging and handover inspection reports, net test tags (nets over 12 months old carry a current test tag), and the FASET-backed assurance that the work meets current industry guidance. If a net arrests a fall it is taken out of service and inspected by a competent person before any further use.
Need fall arrest netting rigged correctly and to programme? Contact Red Safety Netting to discuss your site and arrange a quote from our FASET-accredited team.
FAQs
Only trained, competent Safety Net Riggers. The recognised qualification is the FASET-delivered CSCS Safety Net Rigger card, backed by an NVQ Level 2. Installing nets without competent riggers risks both safety and a failed CDM appointment.
As close as practicably possible below the working platform to keep the fall height low. Where achievable nets are rigged no more than around 2m beneath the work level, and always extend a minimum of 3m beyond the leading edge where operatives are working.
Enough for the net to deflect under a fall without the person striking the structure or ground below. The required clearance depends on the net size and rigging height, which is why we calculate it as part of the rig design rather than applying a fixed figure.
A competent person inspects at rigging and handover. Thereafter the user makes a visual check before each use, with a competent-person re-inspection every seven days while work continues above the net, and after adverse weather or any impact.
Yes. Red Safety Netting is an audited FASET member with qualified riggers. You can ask to see our Annual FASET Membership Certificate and SSiP accreditation as evidence of a competent appointment.
Yes. We provide safety netting installation across the UK for principal contractors, roofing contractors and main contractors.
Projects
Client: City of London Academy (COLA). Location: Bermondsey, London SE1 5LA. Timescale: December 2025 (ongoing).
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New Build Warehouse and Office, we supplied 3,920m2 of safety netting, 1No 8.0m Haki access towers and 276.0lm of edge protection. This project had a very tight program, the…
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Insight

Safety netting tenders that arrive ready for the developer to evaluate properly are not the norm in the UK construction market. Most fall protection tenders default to a small set…

Fall protection is one of the construction packages most consistently appointed late in the procurement process. The package is small relative to scaffold or groundworks, the…

Safety nets perform as fall-arrest systems only if their anchorages perform. The net itself is rated to absorb a defined energy from a fall, but that absorption depends entirely…
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