Osha Roof Railings

Install warning lines no closer than 5 feet inside the roof edges and at a height of 34 to 45 inches.

Osha roof railings.

We are your single source for safety railing system. Rooftop railings systems are a critical form of fall protection. It means osha standards have been met or exceeded so your workers can focus on the job at hand. Roofing safety all employers in the construction industry must have a safety program.

All of our roof systems are designed to meet or exceed osha regulations and can are easy to assemble on the surface of your roof. The safetyrail 2000 guardrail is an osha compliant rooftop guardrail system. Safety rail source provides osha compliant roof edge guard railing skylight screens railing roof hatch railing and many other fall protection products for the best safety solutions at the lowest prices. The most popular is the non penetrating permanent railings.

The top edge height of top rails or equivalent guardrail system members are 42 inches 107 cm plus or minus 3 inches 8 cm above the walking working surface. That original yellow railing represents over 30 years of industry experience quality and rigorous testing. The best solution and the simplest is to install roof edge guard railing around the trouble spots to eliminate the fall hazard completely. It s evolved into a full suite of solutions for both rooftop and industrial fall hazards.

Osha 1910 29 b contains system requirements that employers must follow to ensure guardrail systems will protect workers from falling to lower levels. Contractors and employers who perform construction work must comply with standards in 29 cfr 1926 subpart c general safety and health provisions as well as other applicable photo courtesy of acta safety peterson dean roofing. Osha requires that workers exposed to a fall hazard must have fall protection. Our roof safety railing and guardrail systems can be fully customizable to fit your unique facility and come in a variety of permanent and temporary solutions.

Industry standard says that protection must be in place for anyone working within 15 feet of the roof edge. And that means you can focus on something else. The top edge height may exceed 45 inches 114 cm provided the guardrail system meets all other criteria of paragraph b of this section see figure d 11 of this section. The bluewater sr2k safety railing is a non penetrating fall protection solution ideal for rooftop or ground level applications.

Lay headers sheets of roofing or other materials no closer than 5 feet inside the edges of the roof and parallel to the roofline.