Commercial roof safety

[JD6400]

a metal roof is not usually classed as fragile, so you only usually need edge protection (eg scaffolding), unless it has skylights in the roof, which would be fragile and fall protection would be needed for them.

tbh though if you're competent to do this work then you should know this really, if you don't know it then I'd advise you get a specialist safety consultant on board to guide you through it.

Or use 3/4 inch shuttering ply as a cover over any hazards , Like they say prevention is better than a cure !

This one was a single skin on the bottom with rock wool and cross purilins then another single skin on top , i think it is called a stitched roof in the trade .
The ply alone for this one cost just shy of £2000 without the scaf and loader .

So i hope you ( Woko ) have a contingency fund in place if you have not accounted for bits like this when quoting .

PS , that is not a dig ! It is easy to get caught out , on this job alone both myself , my structural engineer and the building owner misjudged the depth of the space between the two sheets and i had to overnight near on £3000 ( at my expense ) worth of new fixing in from Germany to get the job in before the December crash !

 

[Gavin A]

Or use 3/4 inch shuttering ply as a cover over any hazards , Like they say prevention is better than a cure !

I wasn't being specific, just saying some form of fall protection would be required.

Out of interest, when you were installing the boards, what fall protection measures did you have in place at this point?

That's always been my issue with boarding over roof lights, plus not really seeing how they can be secured without penetrating the roof.

 

[JD6400]

I know Gavin , it was aimed at the op .

As for the fixings on this one , they were fixed with teckbolts on the ridges and when removed the holes were re fixed with the same stitching tecks as used to build it in the first place , so in some respects we left the roof stronger and more weather resistant than when we got to it , especially as the original builder had been shall we say a wee bit mean on the stitching tecks in the first place !

And that is a superb point about the fall protection , they had variable length lanyards fixed to the loader head stock ( with the keys safely in one of their pockets ) which had access the length of the building while loading out the ply .

But i have seen what you mean from others and stopped and wondered why bother in the first place !?