DEBRIS NETTING CAN SAVE CAREERS

Every worksite has debris. Junk and litter and broken things and things that are used up seem to grow wild wherever construction or destruction is taking place. Usually it is dealt with as part of the natural order of things. But debris in high places can rain down death and destruction. Debris netting can prevent expensive and even fatal accidents.

One of the dangers of work on tall structures is wind. Strong winds can blow people and object of the edge of the surface on which they are located. Wrapping a building in netting reduces wind penetration, while still allowing air circulation.

Golf Netting placed horizontally below and around the work area can catch object and people before they can land on something hard and expensive. Good netting should have a small mesh that even things like nuts and bolts won’t slip through.

One of the most famous construction projects ever to take place in the United States of America was the Golden Gate Bridge. Everyone assumed there would be deaths. The standard wisdom on the subject was that one worker would be lost for every million dollars spent. At a projected thirty five million dollars men couldn’t help wondering who among them would be one of the thirty five to die.

Their fears were not unjustified. Bridging the entrance to the San Francisco Bay was considered by many to be an impossible task. Citizens of the day recalled that the project was first suggested by the crazy-as-a-loon old eccentric known as Emperor Norton. Between that strong winds that gusted through the narrow passage and the frequent attacks of fog that would impair visibility and make steel girders slippery chances of survival looked poor.

Chief engineer Joseph Strauss could see that all of the standard precautions were not going to be enough on this unique project. He ordered an enormous safety net and had it suspended under the bridge and cantilevered out ten feet on both sides.

The most obvious result of what some considered to be an extreme safety precaution is that the lives of nineteen men were saved. They became informally known as the Halfway to Hell Club. The price of the huge net was high but compared to the lives of those nineteen men it was a bargain.

In addition to the saving in human life there were financial rewards. Accidents are expensive in terms of lost time, death benefits, medical expenses. No one today probably gives much thought to what those nineteen deaths would have cost the company if they had happened.

One of the bridge workers suggested that work on the bridge became more efficient once the net was installed. Knowing it was there was good for morale and gave the workers confidence to work more quickly.

The safety net provided Strauss, the city and the company the added benefit of good publicity. The bridge was controversial. Many people thought it never should have been started. Strauss was not popular in many circles and had no reputation as a humanitarian. Some workers even questioned Strauss’s motives, saying he was actually concerned more about his own reputation than about the safety of the workers. However whatever may have motivated Strauss to provide a safety net the results were clear. The project came in under budget and ahead of schedule. Nineteen men whose lives could have ended before the bridge was completed lived to tell their tales. Credit goes to one man who decided not to scrimp on netting. Debris netting might not net such exciting results but it is likewise something worth not scrimping on.

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