Anyone walking on a roof and sees an open whole, should know this needs to be marked and safely protected. However, skylights are less obvious. Where the drop still exists, there is now a glass or plastic covering and separating the individual from the whole. This may lead to a false sense of security. However, the reality is glass and plastic break, and are not really protecting you from the real hazard.Most skylights are not designed to be structural. Meaning the manufacturer is not anticipating your body weight striking or leaning on their product. They are designed to let in natural light without letting in water and debris from the outside.There are a number of benefits that the roof skylights provide. They can significantly help you to reduce the energy costs. The daylight that they let in can positively affect the physiological and psychological well-being of people working inside a building. However, they can be a major fall hazard and cost your company who is doing the roof a lot of money and put your workers at harm.

OSHA identifies for 4 types of fall protection for protecting your skylights:

1. Covers
2. Guardrails systems
3. Travel restraint systems
4. Personal fall arrest systems

Why not look into the Eagle Industries Safety nets?  After reviewing the rest of the blog, please watch our VIDEO and read the attached PDF link. These skylight safety nets are light weight, OSHA compliant, bright ORANGE, easy to carry, easy to store, easy to have in every service truck and very easy to assemble!  Plus, they are very cost effective.  It’s really a no brainer!

Skylight Safety Nets are made of high tenacity 4″ polypropylene knotless nets.They are used during new construction, renovation, and maintenance roof work as a form of personnel fall protection where skylights are present. The Skylight Safety Net is designed to keep personnel from falling through an opening that is either not properly secured with a hardcover or is otherwise a temporarily unprotected roof opening. The nets fit over a raised rectangular skylight or hatch opening to which a 1.5″ Web ratchedstrap can be sinched to the size of the opening.

**Dynamic drop test refers to the average strength of the netting as a whole under adynamic load. Rating is the force of the impact calculated from the weight of the load, height of the dropand reflection, or sag of the net under load.**

Applications

• Personnel Fall Protection
  • Skylight/Hatch Opening Cover
  • Solar Panel Installation Protection
  • New Roof Construction
  • Roof Renovation
  • Roof Maintenance 

Features

• High tenacity polypropylene knotless net (HTTP)
  • Includes green web strapping & ratchet strap
  • Net Size: 10′ x 10′
  • Mesh Size: 4” inch square
  • Cord Diameter: 3/16” inch
  • Complies to OSHA 1910.28
  • Dynamic drop test: 7,000 ft-lbs.
  • Color: Bright Safety Orange
  • Border: Reinforced with rope border edges
  • Melting Point: 320° F

Benefits

• Provides safety fall protection for workers during roof skylight installation and maintenance work
  • Custom sizes available
  • Made in USA

Stay OSHA compliant, stay safe, stay ahead of OSHA, keep your workers safe and call us today!

Remember who loves you!

Reference

https://simplifiedsafety.com/blog/skylights-an-often-overlooked-fall-hazard/

Skylight Safety Nets

If you’re not familiar with this term, it means To be considered for a Supplier Diversity Program. You must maintain current certification by an accepted certifying body as a minority or women-owned business enterprise.  This process is an accomplishment to achieve and is a lengthy process, in order to get certified.  But is so worth it.

Here are some benefits we want to share with you.

1. Setting ourselves apart from the competitor.

We have set ourselves apart from our competition.  We can help with government contracts and offer a service our competitors can’t.

2. Having a sense of Community

Becoming a certified minority-owned business provides you with an entirely new network of people who want to see you succeed. Doors will open with your fellow business owners, large corporations and employee resource groups.

3. Opened up Marketing opportunities

It can be used as a marketing opportunity, especially if your business is located in an area where minorities live. Or those who want to support a Minority Business.

4. Opening Up More Opportunities

Being certified as a minority-owned business allows you the opportunity to compete for RFPs for which you might not have been considered for. It opens up a world of corporate and government opportunities that, as a boutique company, you would not be exposed to otherwise.

Corporations want to do business with minority-owned businesses because they realize that U.S. minorities have great purchasing power. And needless to say, if they want minorities to purchase their products and services, they have to support their businesses in return.

Federal officials support minority-owned businesses because they realize that by doing so, they will help the country grow a sustainable economic climate.

We hope to work with you and get to know you!  Remember who loves you!

Referenced
https://www.kabbage.com/resource-center/manage/steps-benefits-becoming-certified-minority-business-owner

https://www.allbusiness.com/7-benefits-becoming-certified-minority-owned-business-98020-1.html

A roof perimeter line system is a passive fall protection system. The federal government’s fall protection laws (29CFR 1926.501-502) allow for several fall protection systems on roofs with slopes of 4:12 or less. These warning lines creates a visual cue and serve as a barrier to restrict workers from approaching the edge of a roof or hazards. Warning line systems are inexpensive, keeps workers safe & roof companies in compliance.  Roofing warning line systems are method of fall protection for roofers.  Construction companies must meet OSHA requirements 29 C.F.R when warning lines are used to protect roofers from falling, set up is as follows:

• Flagged at not more than 6-foot intervals with high visibility material.
• Supported so that the lowest point is not less than 34” from walking & working surfaces & highest point is no more than 39”
• Stanchions with warning lines shall be capable of resisting, without tipping over
• Warning lines are to be erected around all the sides of the roof that is in a work area. When mechanical equipment is being used, the warning line needs to be erected not less than 6 feet from the edge of the room.  This needs to be parallel to the direction of mechanical equipment operation, and not less than 10 feet from the roof edge perpendicular to the direction of mechanical equipment operation
• When Mechanical equipment is not in use, the warning line cannot be less than 6’ from the roof edge.

There are 3 options for leading edge protection.  Safety Guardrails, perimeter systems, and Visual warning.

Safety Guardrails must withstand a minimum 200LB force and sometimes also require toe boards.  This application requires the least amount of employee training and inspection.

Perimeter systems clamp on perimeter systems and allow edge to edge protection without fall restraint.  This system is used when a parapet or slab edge is present.  This system sets up quickly.  Very minimumamount of training and inspection is needed for this type of safety perimeter set up.

Visual Warning is a warning line system must be 6 feet from roofing contractors and 15 feet from a hazard.  You need a 39’ diverter cone and 30lb base.  With OSHA pennant 100’ safety color flags.

Remember, keep your rooftops properly marked,stay ahead of OSHA& Safety First!

Oh,and Remember, who loves you!

Referenced Roofing Contractor Magazine, Safety Rail Company

Safety First/Safety Courses

What’s new for Garza Supply this 20/20… is remembering to be OSHA compliant as we all have families to go home too. As our famous sayings go, Safety First and Remember who Loves you! We have partnered up with Brauner Safety. Brauner Safety is based out of Florida and part of the NRCA. Brauner Safety teaches Safety throughout the US and will be doing all their training’s in Illinois through Garza Supply.

Brauner Safety Services, Inc. was formed by Jim Brauner in 2012 & has quickly become an industry leader in the training of Roofing industry professionals. Jim has 39 years of roofing experience and 310 classes under his belt. Compliance with the US Army Corps of Engineers, (USACE) EM 385-1-1 is required by all contractors working on military contracts and projects. Brauner’s team members expand the Brauner service offering to a fully bi-lingual program with more than 75 combined years of first-tier national & international Roofing experience. We can offer classes such as NRCA CERTA Torch Safety Training, OSHA 10/OSHA30, OSHA 10/30 with employee testing, forklift certification, fall protection training, heat welding and generator safety training, mobile fall protection cart training and certification, AND SO MUCH MORE! Call us today to find out more details.

Remember who loves you!

New style roof dome by MIFAB. Please see attached videos. It’s to prevent clogging around roof drain. This also allows water to flow through the drain. MIFAB can provide you with the quality, engineered plumbing and drainage solutions you need. Innovative product designs save the installer time and material cost and provides the owner with higher quality cast stainless steel drains and clean outs for the same cost as the industry standard nickel bronze. Contact us today to learn more!

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How do you get your trash off a high rise building safely?  Maybe you don’t have a high rise building but a smaller building? A chute system is the way to go! A slopping channel, that looks like a fun slide but built for conveying things to a lower level.  This system is great for roofers. Scaffolding, general contractors, and construction companies.

Durachute system was designed to handle light-duty construction, roofing, and or light renovation work.  Duraflat Chute is a flat chute system designed to store and transport flat.  It’s primary use is light roofing and renovation work.  https://chutes.com/.

Not only will Garza Supply get you chutes BUT we will help assist in assembling the Chute system, if needed.  Here is some information on the DURACHUTE:

• Larger, 32″ Inside Diameter, Thicker, More Resilient HDPE, Complete System forYour Every Need:Window/Parapet Outrigger. Scaffold Outrigger, Flat Roof Outrigger, No Touch’ Parapet Outrigger
• Pitched Roof Outrigger, Safe, Easy, And Quick to Install
• Pays for Itself In 2 To 3 Uses
• Extremely Flexible System
• Can Be Used For:Roofing, Renovation, New Construction
• Special Applications like; Snow Removal & Landscaping
• Hardware Is Galvanized
• Sections Are Telescopic, For Ease of Storage AndTransport
• Each section is around 4’ tall with 3’ 1” of usable chute length
• Sections weigh 37LBS
• Top opening of 32” tapers to 27”
• Intermediate Intakes withSafety Flaps that Can Be EasilyPlaced Anywhere AlongChute
• Chains are Adjustable toMeet Your Building Floors, Height Requirements, Thicker High Impact Areasfor Added Durability
• Company BrandingAvailable
• Fire Retardant

https://chutes.com/.

In conclusion, after reading the many benefits of a chute system, why be that business that removes garbage by hand or thrown off the roof? Throwing garbage off the roof is not only dangerous for those around you, your own workers BUT it will cause an OSHA violation.  There are many benefits that can be derived from having and using a trash chute on your jobsites.  Contact us today for your CHUTE System, questions, concerns and more!  So shoot to your phone, or shoot us an e-mail for all your roofing/construction CHUTE needs! Remember who loves you!

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Q. What are the Height Requirements for Fall Protection?
Answer:
Federal regulations require that fall protection be provided at elevations of four feet in general industry workplaces, five feet in shipyards, six feet in the construction industry, eight feet in long shoring operations, 10 feet for steel erection activities and 30 feet for deckers.

In addition, if a worker can fall into or onto dangerous machines or equipment of any height (such as a vat of acid or a conveyor belt) employers must provide guardrails and toe-boards to prevent workers from falling and getting injured.

Q. What is the difference between a Class A and Class B SRL?
Answer:
Here are the defining differences between Class A and B, based on ANSI Classifications:
Class A: Maximum arresting distance up to 24 inches. Average arresting force not to exceed 1,350 lbs.
Class B: Maximum arresting distance up to 54 inches. Average arresting force not to exceed 900 lbs.

Q. What is the lifespan of my lanyard?
Answer:
As a general rule, the life expectancy of web products, such as a lanyard, is on average five years. However, OSHA does not state a mandatory life of any web products.

It is important to inspect your web lanyard before each use for defects such as fraying, burns, cuts, and heavy soiling. If any of those defects are present, use should be discontinued. The product also should not be used if the energy absorber has been deployed.

It is also recommended that a competent person perform an in-depth inspection of products every six months. Each company has the final discretion as to where the equipment is compliant.