Sent in by a regular visitor to Vertikal.Net, a photo of two men working on the refurbishment of a commercial building.
They are using a scissor lift that is clearly too small for this part of the job, as are the ladders they have. The work they are doing must be somewhere in the region of eight or nine metres?
The solution? Combine the scissor lift and extension ladder!
The poor sap up the ladder is holding on for dear life, while trying to use a sander.
There is hardly anything right about this picture: the ladder on top of the lift, the horizontal pressure applied on the lift from the ladder, the angle of the ladder, working from it for an extended period… They are all obvious.
We are not sure where it occurred, but hopefully the two survived the crazy work at height solution and went home to their families.
AdamSmithOrionAccess
IPAF Instructor here. This is the kind of picture I use when explaining to people what NOT to do. It is frightening how many people still do work like this. Yes, it costs time and money getting the right equipment for the job but how do you compare this to risking lives?
AdamSmithOrionAccess
IPAF Instructor here. This is the kind of picture I use when explaining to people what NOT to do. It is frightening how many people still do work like this. Yes, it costs time and money getting the right equipment for the job but how do you compare this to risking lives?