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.

Fragile roof surfaces cannot support the weight of a person surfaces can include. It s made of fibre cement sheets. All roofs should be considered fragile until they ve been deemed non fragile by a competent person. What is a fragile roof surface.

There are liner panels on built up sheeted roofs. Beware of old or hidden rooflights. Of these 10 deaths have involved sheeted cladded type roofs while 2 occurred on other types of roofs. Fragile roofing materials include.

Rooflights and perspex sheeting often difficult to identify due to weathering. Liner sheets on built up roofs. 7 of these fatalities occurred on agricultural buildings with most involving a simple fall through fragile roof material. There are metal sheets on a roof.

Falls through fragile roofs and fragile roof lights cause death and serious injury. 22 of all fatal falls in the construction industry involve falls through a fragile surface. Old roof lights sometimes painted non reinforced fibre cement sheets. 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. Glass including wired glass wood wool slabs. According to hse a roof is or is likely to be fragile if. In particular the following are likely to be fragile.

Unreinforced cement sheets including asbestos cement sheeting.