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2015-10-01 to 2016-06-30
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The European construction industry accounts for over half of the fatal and major fall injuries from height, slips and trips. In 2013/2014 period, fall injuries prejudiced the UK economy approximately 1.5 million working days (ca. £800 million) (LFS 2013/2014). Falls mainly arise from working on a scaffold or platform without guardrails, or with improperly attached or no safety harness. Other causes include fragile roofs, ladders that are badly maintained, positioned or secured, lack of edge protection, unprotected openings in buildings and inadequate scaffolding. The cost of these accidents to the individual, the employer and to society is often significant. To try prevent falls, construction companies use safety nets that have costly and long installation processes, requiring the use of cranes to install and move between floors. These nets have to be drilled or permanently attached to the building often destroying building concrete and other structures. Moreover, crane time is the most sought after and valuable resource on a construction site, with the booking schedules reaching weeks in advance. There is thus a ready and growing market in the UK, Europe and worldwide for innovative safety net designs that minimise the use of cranes. Rapid EPS is developing an innovative, extendable safety net system that bolts onto the existing building concrete through self-tapping bolts and can be moved up and down on rails between floors without the use of cranes. Our safety net system will be able to support falls of up to 400kg in weight, four times more than existing products and has proved to significantly reduce injuries from falls and completely eliminate fatalities compared to the use of works attached by support harnesses. Further to this, the system can be retracted rapidly for equipment transport or access to the floor as needed without lengthy dismantling or damage to the building structure.