Seilunterstützte Montageverfahren im Stahl‐ und Anlagenbau

Rope access assembly technique for steel constructions and plant engineering. During construction of new industrial buildings, architectural building design is often given first priority. Due to cost pressures, mounting processes and thoughts about protection concepts are only considered last‐minute on the site. While technical protection devices (as e.g. scaffolds and other antifall guards) are increasingly cut down, rope access operations have been developed in the last years, in order to enable an economic and safe execution of the necessary work activities in heights! On the international level, the Health + Safety Executive in England treated safety related procedures in the context of “Industrial rope access –…” in the Contract Research Report 364/2001. In Germany, the most important valid standards are DIN EN 361 “Personal protective equipment against falls from a height” and DIN EN 12841:2006 “Personal fall protection equipment – Rope access systems – Rope adjustment devices”, which at present is only available as a draft. Therefore, rope access operations are so far regulated by the German Betriebssicherheitsverordnung (Operational Safety Ordinance). Here, working with two independent redundant rope systems as access and positioning with the assistance of ropes is briefly described under 5.1.5 in the Annex. Aim is to reach a maximum of safety for rope access operations by means of early planning. The residual risk is assessed by a hazard evaluation and thus made calculable.