Fragile Roof Examples

This leaflet is for building owners and occupiers construction businesses and workers in the construction refurbishment and building maintenance sectors in short anyone working on fragile roofs or having work done.

Fragile roof examples. There are liner panels on built up sheeted roofs. Of these 10 deaths have involved sheeted cladded type roofs while 2 occurred on other types of roofs. Many others suffer serious permanent injuries. Rooflights and perspex sheeting often difficult to identify due to weathering.

All roofs should be considered fragile until they ve been deemed non fragile by a competent person. Beware of old or hidden rooflights. All roofs once fixed should be treated as fragile until a competent person has confirmed that they are non fragile. They account for almost a fifth of all the fatal accidents which result from a fall from height in the construction industry.

In particular the following are likely to be fragile. Fragile roofing materials include. 7 of these fatalities occurred on agricultural buildings with most involving a simple fall through fragile roof material. Unreinforced cement sheets including asbestos cement sheeting.

Liner sheets on built up roofs. Old roof lights sometimes painted non reinforced fibre cement sheets. There are metal sheets on a roof. Glass including wired glass wood wool slabs.

22 of all fatal falls in the construction industry involve falls through a fragile surface. Fragile roof surfaces cannot support the weight of a person surfaces can include. It s made of fibre cement sheets. Almost all of these fatalities arise from construction work in some form or another although not always on what might be regarded as a.

Falls through fragile roofs and fragile roof lights cause death and serious injury.