Height Safety Works
Survey, access, anchorage and rescue planning for work at height — plus trained crews who follow it.
What height safety works covers
You are working at height whenever you are above another level where a fall could cause injury: on a ladder, scaffolding, a flat or sloped roof, near an edge or a floor opening. This service covers the practical side of that risk — mapping the hazards, providing safe access, protecting the edges and planning how anyone who is attached comes down.
The discipline splits in two: this is the access, anchorage and rescue work, while fall protection systems is the engineered equipment — lifelines, arresting devices and anchors — supplied and certified as one package. Most projects need both.
Planning follows the hierarchy of controls: remove the trip to the roof where the task allows it — permanent ladders and stair towers for routine access — then guardrails for work that happens often, and harness restraint or arrest only where the first two do not fit. That reasoning is written into the survey, so the choice can be defended in an audit instead of rebuilt from memory next year.
Survey first, then the route
We start by walking the site with your team: every roof access, ladder, hatch, platform and opening is recorded, along with the route people actually take to reach their work. Hazards are ranked, and the control is chosen to suit the task — guardrails where access is routine, arrest or restraint where it is not.
The survey output is a marked-up plan your safety file can use directly. Where existing anchors are already installed, their condition and tags are recorded in the same pass so gaps are visible before any system is specified.
The survey also records the roof surface and its condition, because access and anchor decisions depend on it: standing seam, sandwich panel, membrane and concrete each take fixings differently, and a weak deck changes where anchors may sit. Measurements are taken on site rather than read off old drawings — buildings drift from their documentation, and the route people actually walk often includes the ladder nobody drew.
Rescue planned before handover
An anchor without a rescue plan only moves the emergency. For every system we hand over, we write the descent route: how an attached worker is lowered or climbs down, who performs the rescue, and what equipment is staged for it.
Where crews will use the system daily, we run drills on the actual access route and train your staff on inspection, connection and self-rescue — records issued per person, ready for your permit file.
Rescue planning covers the details your team will need at two in the morning: the descent path is walked and timed, the anchor for the rescue line is identified and marked, and retrieval equipment is kept where the rescuer will find it, not locked in an office. Trained rescuers are named for each shift or area, and drills are recorded with dates and findings, so the plan is a document people have practiced.
Tagged, recorded, re-inspected
Installed systems are tagged with their identifier and inspection date, and the register is handed over with layout drawings and component certificates. Re-inspection intervals are given in writing, and we return before they lapse to re-tag.
The same visit can cover fall protection systems servicing and any repairs picked up by field maintenance. Book the survey and we will map the hazards with you.
What’s included
Order any item on its own or as a full package with our roofing and steel teams.
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All height Safety Works projectsCommon questions
Any work where someone could fall to a lower level — ladders, roofs, platforms, floor openings and edges. If fall arrest could be needed, it counts.