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Edge protection and handrail in Cambridge

Guarding for roof edges, open floors and excavations - the practical option when the job needs fall protection rather than full access.

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What it is

Fall protection without the full structure

Not every job at height needs a scaffold around the whole building. Where trades are working on a flat roof, an open floor or alongside an excavation, the actual risk is falling from an edge - and the answer to that is guarding fitted along the edge itself.

Edge protection is a system of posts and rails fixed at the danger point, giving a physical barrier where someone could otherwise go over. It's quicker to install than a full scaffold, takes up far less space, and on the right job it costs a fraction of the alternative.

It's often the sensible choice for short jobs, roof-mounted plant, and anywhere a full scaffold would be disproportionate to a couple of days' work.

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Why choose us

The right amount of scaffold for the job

Not over-specified

If your job doesn't need a full scaffold, we'll say so. Edge protection on its own is often cheaper, quicker and less disruptive.

Fast to install

Far less structure means far less time on site - useful when the work above is only a day or two.

Fits tight sites

Takes up almost no ground space, which matters on sites where a full scaffold has nowhere to stand.

When you need it

Where edge protection is used

Flat roof works and roof-mounted plant, solar panel installation, gutter and fascia work, open floor edges and stairwells during construction, excavation barriers, and any short job where the risk is a fall from an edge rather than a need for working access up the face of a building.

Where the job does need proper access - trades working up the elevation, materials being lifted, several days of work - residential or commercial scaffolding is the better fit, and edge protection is normally built into it. On sites where the hazard is material falling onto people below, safety scaffolding covers that instead.

We fit edge protection across Cambridge and the surrounding towns - see all areas we cover.

How it works

How it gets fitted

1

Tell us the hazard

What the edge is, how high it is and what work is happening near it - that decides the system.

2

We assess the fixing

Roof edges, parapets, steel frames and excavations all need different fixings, so we look before we quote.

3

Fitted and checked

The system goes in and is checked before anyone works next to it.

4

Removed when done

It comes off as soon as the work above is finished, same as any other structure we put up.

Questions

Edge protection, explained

For the right job, usually much cheaper - there's far less structure and far less labour. But it only suits work where the risk is falling from an edge. If trades need to work up the face of a building, a full scaffold is the correct answer and we'd tell you so.

Usually. There are systems that clamp to parapets or use counterweights rather than fixing through the roof covering. We look at the roof build-up before quoting so the fixing method suits it.

If there's a risk of falling from height, the duration of the work doesn't remove the requirement. Short jobs are exactly where edge protection makes sense, because it's quick to fit and doesn't need a full scaffold.

Yes. Barriers around excavations and open ground work on the same principle - a physical guard at the point where someone could fall in.

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