We all know the importance of health and safety in our daily lives including in our work and in our personal lives as well. We try to do whatever we can to keep ourselves safe every day and that includes looking both ways before crossing the road and using traffic lights to guide the way. Every business in the United States is required to have a full health and safety program in place to protect their staff and customers alike. When it comes to your employees, they need to have confidence in your ability to keep them safe during the working day and especially so if they are working with heavy machinery or on a production line.
As the owner of any tall building here in America, your responsibilities increase when it comes to service providers that will come out to your property to perform essential maintenance and cleaning for example. You need to do whatever you can to make sure that they are safe at all times and that you provide them with anything that will help to make their working lives easier. One of the first things that you should have installed on the top of your building is an anchor bolt so that these tradespeople can attach various safety equipment to it that will keep them safe while doing their jobs. Obviously, you need to make sure that there are regular anchor bolt inspections so that the device is fully operational and safe.
The following are just some occupations where an anchor bolt is required in order to keep them safe at all times.
- Professional window cleaners – It is important to keep the windows clean on your property and if this is your business premises then you need to be able to allow as much natural light as possible to come into the building. Not only will it be beneficial for your employee’s health but it will also help to reduce your utility bills as the lights will not have to be turned on as often. Professional window cleaners will be suspended from the top of the building using the anchor so that they can easily navigate around the building and get the job done properly.
- Experience roofing contractors – We have always been told from a very young age that as long as you have a strong roof over your head that everything will be okay in this life. This is excellent advice and especially so when it comes to your business. Your roof works hard every single day to make sure that everything below it is protected at all times and so you need to give it a helping hand from time to time. This is when you call out your roofing contractors to make sure that everything is all right up there and if any work needs to be done, then it needs to be completed in a safe manner. Once again, this is when your roof anchor bolt comes into play as they can attach themselves to it with a harness as they navigate their way around the roof of your property.
These are just two instances when health and safety is paramount and that you as the owner of the building have done everything that you can so that they can carry out their work safely and effectively. If you don’t have such an anchor in place then you may find it difficult to get contractors to complete work that needs to be done for your business property. This leaves you at a significant disadvantage in business.
