Sector: Industrial construction
Location: Padua
Date: May 2011
Products: Rail System
CUSTOMER NEEDS:
- Providing workers with a restraint system in order to avoid falling into one of the three circular settling basins from the catwalks placed above them.
- In this case the restraint system was not meant to protect workers from fall from height, in fact basins were placed at about 1 metre above ground level. However, due to their familiarity with the workplace, workers were more likely to accidentally fall because of a lack in caution while performing their duties.
- There is a great number of biological and mechanical risks inside a settling basin: raw sewage coming from inlet zone is full of harmful pollutants; moreover other chemicals are added to clarify it by means of coagulation and flocculation treatments which allow grouping particles together into flocs of a bigger size that will eventually settle on the tank floor.
- The rakes in charge of removing settled particles collected into the sludge zone could also injure workers who might fall into the tanks.
- Ensuring safety for maintenance works on sewers, drains and biogas digester inside the water filtration plant.
OUR SOLUTION: Rigid rail
A flexibile, versatile and yet rigid (deflection = 0) system was what the customer need: a rail system was the answer. Sicurpal installed a rigid rail lifeline to work on the edges of settling basins and on the steep slope of the biogas digester, where our engineer team suggested to work on ropes.
PRODUCTS USED
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Alurail S rail
Multi-purpose rigid rail lifeline.