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Roofing work by its very nature entails work at height and this often involves the use of scaffold to access the rooftop, whether it’s a pitched roof or a flat roof.  Working on a scaffold is preferable to working on a ladder, which should only be used for jobs of short duration (30 minutes or less)  Any workers who use a scaffold should be competent to do so and should have received appropriate training for the type of scaffold they are working on. 

The most recent statistics from the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that there were 35 fatalities resulting from falls from height in 2017 – 2018.  A fall from height remains the most common cause of death or life changing injuries in the workplace and most of those falls occur in the construction industry.  The roofing sector is the industry’s major group working at height, so the more methods of avoiding falls we have to choose from, the better.  Today we’re going to take a look at one of the alternative methods of protecting workers from falls from height, the fall arrest bag