Safety Netting for scaffolds

[ToughButterCup]

I have seen two types of safety netting for scaffold walkways

• Plastic rigid netting - fairly wide open mesh
• Knitted green scaffold netting - the sort of weave that you might see used elsewhere as a fisherman's keep net.

I am not talking about pure fall protection netting.

 

I need to install one or the other, and perhaps both.

In my wanderings round West Lancashire  now,  I almost always stop and examine scaffolding wherever it is visible from the roadside. (I'm calling it CPD). I used to do the same before I bought a digger: stop and look at it closely.

 

Mostly I see the wide-aperture plastic semi-rigid, board-like netting zip-tied to the ledgers. The sort that could, just about, stop my hammer from falling if it comes out of its scabbard.

I'd prefer to buy the green knitted type netting because it 'feels' safer.  Far less likely to allow small bits and bobs to fall off the scaffold.

 

Thoughts?

 

 

 

 

[Declan52]

Do you  have some of the fencing you used to keep the newts out left over?? I have seen everything from netting to chicken wire used.

Most of the stuff that falls from a scaffold is kicked over not dropped. It's important that the out side plank is flipped on it's edge so it sits up and gets held in place by the other 5 planks then you have a double hand rail which will catch most things from going over the edge.

[ToughButterCup]

Yes, I do @Declan52.

Double hand-rail in place and the cick-board is going on tomorrow or saturday .

As a secondary issue, I'd like to be seen to be making an effort. Looking professional, even when I know full well I'm no expert is part of the game.  I suspect the green fine mesh netting will catch just about everything.

 

Looking as if I'm making it up as I go along is perhaps a first-class invitation for an Inspector to pay a visit.

[lizzie]

We bought some rolls of the green fine mesh to put on our heras fencing as neighbour wanted ‘privacy’ its semi opaque so did a part job.  Think I got it from ebay. Reasonably cheap. We are single storey so didnt need it on the scaffold.

[Declan52]

Don't forget the smaller the mesh the more it will act like a sail when the wind gets up.

[lizzie]

18 minutes ago, Declan52 said:

 

Don't forget the smaller the mesh the more it will act like a sail when the wind gets up.

 

Oh yes I can testify to that!