High-rise and skyscraper window washers are required to put themselves in dangerous situations, dangling over the side of buildings via ropes and using abseiling techniques to control their rate of descent. Some work alone using a boatswain’s chair, while others work in teams on scaffolding, but both present similar challenges and safety concerns.
The boatswain’s chair is a device that consists of a small seat that is suspended from a rope that attaches to the roof of a building. By using a seat instead of a climbing harness, workers experience limited range of motion during cleaning, but some boatswain’s chairs also feature a separate harness to protect against falls.
Companies also implement movable scaffolding for exterior cleaning applications. Movable scaffolding is similar to stationary scaffolding but uses a harness system to raise and lower the structure along the side of skyscraper buildings. Since scaffolding holds more than one employee at a time, workers are able to work in unison to complete cleaning jobs.
Sky Pro, a division of Nu-Star Inc., is a safe and inexpensive way to clean windows, frames and exteriors of high rise buildings. This self-climbing, automated equipment leaves windows spot free and lowers the total cost of cleaning by 70-80%, when compared to manual chair or scaffold cleaning.
No comments:
Post a Comment