New year, new products, new brochure from Easi-Dec
To celebrate the New Year, and to continue our ongoing efforts to ensure high safety standards throughout the UK, we have launched an updated version of our product brochure. The …
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Kee Systems Protects Porcelanosa’s Skylights
Kee Systems has installed a total of 2,570 Kee Covers on the roofs at Porcelanosa’s retail sites across the country to protect the fragile skylights on the roofs and ensure …
Avoid roof obstacles with Easi-Dec
Modern roofs are littered with obstacles which can make working safely and efficiently a difficult task. These obstacles can range from frustrating to downright dangerous, with everything from plant and …
Kee Walk Rooftop Walkway Protection
Anti-slip Rootop Walkway Kee Walk® is suitable for use on flat, barrel and sloping roofs. The system’s step and traverse options allow access to be created for virtually any roof …
New Full Height Gates to Protect Access to Roofs from Ladders
Our Kee Gate portfolio of self-closing safety gates has been expanded by the addition of full height safety gates. Available in either galvanised or powder coated options, the full height …
Carrying out pre-winter roof maintenance safely
With summer done for another year, and winter fast approaching, now is the perfect time to ensure the roof and exterior of your property is prepared for the bad weather …
Why you need a rescue plan
Rescue plans are a vital part of working at height. If something goes wrong, you need to ensure that those working can be recovered safely and as quickly as possible. …
Important update to our Board-Walk system
Our innovative Board-Walk platform is now even more useful thanks to a recent update. With a simple modification, the system can now run horizontally as well as vertically across a …
New Full Height Gates for Safe Access from Ladders
We have added full height gate options to the range of Kee Gate self closing-safety gates. Ideal for protecting openings on ladders, stairs and roof hatches, the full height safety gates …
Roof Safety Solution for Roehampton Leisure Centre
We have provided Roehampton Sports and Fitness Centre with a collective roof edge protection system that ensures optimum roof top safety for maintenance and inspection teams. Roehampton Sports and Fitness …
KeeLine fall protection at 90 Hills Road
Continual Handsfree Protection KeeLine horizontal life line and Mobile Man Anchor systems at the newly refurbished 90 Hills Road, Cambridge allow safe access to the roof areas for general maintenance purposes. Situated in …
Kee Systems provides a rooftop safety solution for country house hotel
Kee Systems has provided Down Hall Country House Hotel in Essex, with a flexible and effective safety solution to enable routine roof maintenance to be carried out safely. Down Hall …
The Roof Edge Pitched Roof Solution
Roof safety can be a difficult task when it comes to pitched roofs, as the angle can make it difficult to ensure staff or contractors carrying out work are properly …
Roof-Walk for fragile roofs
A fully guarded rolling work platform mounted on twin tracks to enable you to move up and down the roof. Protection for Fragile Roofs Designed to overcome the challenges with …
The importance of head protection
Head protection is required across every aspect of construction, especially in places where there is a risk of being injured by falling objects, collapsing structures, protruding extensions, or when working …
Big Foot Systems Provides Support at Manchester Royal Infirmary
Big Foot Systems has supplied a custom plant deck to support a chiller on the asphalt roof of Manchester Royal Infirmary. Big Foot Technical worked with the contractors to design …
Safe access and maintenance with Kee Step-Overs
Many of today’s roofs contain a variety of trip hazards and changes in roof level, making safe access difficult, if not impossible. This can seriously increase the risk of working …
Edge protection for solar panel maintenance
Portable, Non-Counterweighted Edge Protection Safesite has installed KeeGuard® Premium at Hall & Woodhouse’s contemporary pub & restaurant in Portishead to allow safe maintenance of solar panels and plant installed on the roof. Hall & Woodhouse …
Safe painting and decorating from Easi-Dec
By Soni Sheimar, Easi-Dec General Manager Exterior painting and decorating is a challenging job at best and risky, if not dangerous, at worst. It often combines the risks associated with …
Working in fall arrest: what you need to know
Fall arrest is the term used when working at height with a system which doesn’t prevent you from accessing a fall risk, unlike fall restraint. Instead of preventing you from …
The dangers of solar installation and maintenance
Installing solar panels is not an easy job, and it is definitely not safe; like all work at height it requires serious planning, the right equipment and competent, well trained …
Void properties and what to do about them
Hundreds of thousands of homes across the UK are unoccupied, left empty for various reasons, including financial issues which may prevent the owner from renovating the house, or it might …
Don’t choose between budget and keeping workers safe
It’s a common conundrum for every site manager and contractor. How can you keep to your budget without putting workers’ lives at risk? At Safesite, we want to make safe, …
A first class installation of radiused KeeGuard
Discreet Edge Protection Safe roof access has been ensured at Warwick Business School following the installation of several KeeGuard edge protection systems. Part of the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School …
Curing Sunderland Royal Hospital’s Access Problems
Kee Systems has recently provided Sunderland Royal Hospital with several bespoke access platforms to allow safe access to plant and equipment situated on the new Emergency Department’s roof. Sunderland Royal …
HSE inspection campaign to focus on work at height
The Health and Safety Executive is continuing its nationwide site inspection campaign having already carried out over 2,000 this year nationwide. This second phase will focus on, among other things, …
Do you need a roof walkway?
By Jason Godfrey, Safesite General Manager Ensuring the safety of workers at height should be the priority for anyone with site management responsibilities, as well as designers. The Construction (Design …
Easi-Dec Roofline – The alternative to scaffolding
Easi-Dec, the working at height safety specialist, has supplied Everest with 72 Roofline systems to provide installation teams with a safe, efficient and cost effective solution for accessing roofline level …
How to utilise mezzanine floors safely
By Jason Godfrey, Safesite General Manager Mezzanine floors in warehouses, when utilised properly, can hugely increase the productivity of the site by making use of space that would otherwise be wasted. …
Why you need to tread carefully on fragile roofs
By Soni Sheimar, General Manager, Easi-Dec Every year nine people on average fall to their deaths from fragile roofs or through roof lights. Many more suffer serious, life-changing injuries. Falls …
Top Tips for Safe Spring Maintenance
By Soni Sheimar, Easi-Dec General Manager With the arrival of spring, and winter firmly behind us, now is the time for business owners and landlords to take a look at …
Competence and organisation when working at height
By Jason Godfrey, General Manager of Safesite A Crown Court case which saw three companies fined a total of £400,000 for a worker’s fall through a fragile roof has highlighted …
Guardrail Installation Horrors
Article by Terry Creed, Technical Sales Consultant, Safesite Ltd We’ve written in the past about the importance of competency, especially when it comes to fall protection equipment. I spend a …
ECEX overcomes university challenge
ECEX has successfully solved a roof safety and access problem for the University of Oxford by custom-fabricating and installing a galvanised steel sub-frame and non-slip grating designed to provide consistent, …
Redland’s BCP pitched roof training is just the ticket
Roofers lacking formal qualifications can now enjoy CITB-funded training thanks to Redland’s accreditation as an approved provider of the Basic Competency Programme (BCP) for pitched roofing. The BCP certificate …
Performance Testing for Rooflight Covers
By Jason Godfrey, General Manager, Safesite Ltd When speaking to a customer recently about our new rooflight and skylight protection, Kee Cover®, we were asked how we can be sure …
Importance of Fall Protection Inspection
By Steve Kilpin, Recertification Manager, Safesite Ltd A recent conversation with one of our customers made me realise that many end users are still unaware of their duties once a …
What is the best form of access and egress?
By Jason Godfrey, General Manager, Safesite Limited My recent Blog discussing the issue of rescue from fixed ladders and the HSE’s report on hooped ladders and fall arrest systems prompted …
Unobtrusive edge protection takes off at Virgin Atlantic
Safesite has provided Virgin Atlantic with a collective roof edge protection system that ensures optimum roof top safety for maintenance and inspection teams and complies with all relevant health and …
Easi-Dec provides safe access system for low-level roofs
Easi-Dec, the working at height safety specialist, has developed a Low Level Roof Edge Protection system to provide a cost and time effective alternative to scaffolding. Designed to provide safe …