Health and Safety in the Workplace: a Look at Height Safety
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Working far above the ground in a secure fashion is not just a self-explanatory requirement to assure the safety of your workers, it also leaves them to do their business properly without headaches.
Falls are the greatest cause of deaths and the second greatest cause of minor injuries in the workplace in the British Isles. There is a regulation called “The Work at Height Regulations” – this demands obligations on company owners, those who work for themselves and anyone who is in care of the work of other workers to provide the soundest means of access for the intended application.
One needs to select the best tool for the task at hand. If the task involves some concentration, you don’t need the trouble of thinking you might fall. Something like a Power tower is genuinely the best choice for such delicate tasks far off the ground.
Let’s look at one such tool. The Power tower is a perpetually developing range of mobile access platforms, designed to supply a wide range of safe, handy and pragmatic solutions when doing a task at height. No more climbing large platform steps, build scaffold towers or podiums. Just push the power tower into the correct location, step into the platform, and push a button.
Working at height comes with secondary dangers too – to others below. You must secure the area below to verify loose debris won’t fall on workers there; for instance those using floor saws below the workzone above.

