Removing a glass balustrade - temporarily

[Arron]

Ok, so I went out and bought two ‘roofers kits’ (safety harnesses with travelling rope solution). Not cheap but amazingly high quality - I think.

I also had two anchor points set in.

So far I haven’t had any success getting trades to wear them. The manager of the xxxxxxxxxxx company guaranteed me they would wear them, but when I got to the site they had already departed and the backpacks were still where I left them, unopened. I wasn’t expecting that.

However I do make the fellow i employ periodically wear one as needed - and it is a great comfort to me to know that if a slip occurs it will be little more then a scare.

Tomorrow I’ll be wearing one while working on the balcony ceiling. Again, a great comfort.

Cheers
Arron

[riverbuilder]

“If you don’t want to wear it, and correctly, pack your stuff and remove yourself from site” is my standard answer to any PPE issues. I usually follow this with an email or message to my point of contact to their company, to make sure I am covered if anything blows up. For direct employees it’s simple, you either wear it or get in the boat and I’ll run you back to your car, easy. Although here, generally, if you have a fall off something high, without protection, you won’t need an ambulance, because you wouldn’t survive before it gets to you anyway most guys understand that.

[clear out]

When you are working and wearing the harness do you have a plan?
I ask this as a mate told me the story of how he used a harness when using a chainsaw to trim a tree at a cottage up the blue mountains.
He was on his own.
He had a mishap and fell off the tree.
So there he was on his own swinging in the breeze.
He tried shouting out for help but the neighbours were out.
I guess his phone fell out of his pocket in the fall.
In the end he had to cut himself free and fall to the ground.
He survived ok but always tells that story when somebody mentions harnesses.
I’ve been using one myself lately to paint the exterior of a new sunroom on the front upstairs of our house.
Got the missus to hover inside in case I do some thing stupid.
She actually holds the paint so I can hang on with the spare hand.
I also wear my Japanese roof boots they give great grip on the terracotta tiles.
H