Safe access systems

ROOFTECH offer tailor made safe access systems specifically engineered, installed and regularly inspected for the industrial and commercial roofing and cladding industry.

We offer complete installation to fulfil the clients safety needs, in particular to ensure that CDM requirements are met.

• Roof mounted safety lines
• Permanent guardrails
• Rooflight fall protection guards
• Access ladders
• Roof access hatches

The regulations apply to all work at height where the risk of fall is liable to cause personal injury. They place duties on employers, the self-employed, and any person that controls the work of others (i.e. facilities managers or building owners who may contact others to work at height).

The regulations include schedules giving requirements for existing places of work and means of access for work at height, collective fall arrest (e.g. nets, airbags etc), collective fall prevention ( e.g. guardrails, and working platforms), personal fall protection (e.g. work restraints, fall arrest and roped access) and ladders.

ROOFTECH’s head office is based in Sutton, Surrey and provide roofing refurbishment services to most of the Southern counties including Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Surrey, West Sussex and Wiltshire.

Slip Resistant Roof Walkways – Premiership Football Club, London

Following the successful completion of gutter lining works our client requested a safe means of access for future cleaning and inspection work.

After careful consideration, a purpose made slip-resistant aluminum/uPVC composite walkway with steps and fall restraint stainless steel safety line system was designed, installed and certified to allow future personnel access. Since the original installation we have returned to site annually to re-certify the safety line system and clean our gutter liner to ensure optimum performance.

Permanent Handrails – Watford, Hertfordshire

Following the successful completion of roof over-sheeting works in Watford, Hertfordshire our client requested a safe means of access for the cleaning and inspection of their proposed solar PV panels.

A new permanent edge protection system was installed, comprising 48mm diameter galvanised steel handrails (triple rails to eaves and double rails to verges) with stanchions at 2m centres and purpose made support feet which are rivetted to the new profiled coated steel roof sheeting.

We also included for an opening personnel gate to allow future safe access via a MEWP or tower.

Roof Mounted Safety Line – Mitcham, Surrey

As part of re-roofing works a new SFS Soter horizontal lifeline fall restraint system was installed to allow future gutter cleaning and inspections.