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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, May 10, 2004 ::
Temporary guardrails revamp real estate construction By Paul Bianchina, Inman News
One often-ignored area of home construction safety is the installation of temporary guardrails to protect against accidental falls. Temporary guardrails are very easy and inexpensive to construct, and let you work safely and more comfortably in a variety of situations. Some common areas of the work site that would require a temporary guardrail include:
* Along the open edges of a second-story floor, before the walls are erected;
* Along the open edges of unfinished stairways;
* Around the stairway opening in an upper floor before the stairs are installed;
* Across open door openings prior to installation of the deck or other landing that will service that door;
* Across low window openings (closer than 39 inches off the floor), prior to installation of the window;
* Around upper-floor decks and porches;
* On roof structures around large skylight openings, prior to installation of the skylight;
* Around or alongside other openings in floors, walls, or roofs where the possibility of stepping through the opening and falling a distance of more than 30 inches is possible.------------------------------------------- posted 6:42 AM :: reference link ::
