Working on roofs

Click through the task together with a colleague. If you get through all the questions, discuss within the team the hazardous situations you have experienced at height.

Roofing seats, walkways, construction hoists, roofing materials. You will find only some of the tools useful when you work as a roofer. You will often have to roof old, worn […]

Is it inconvenient to use protection and shielding? What reasons can there be for not using it? What do you need to use it?

Watch the video and note where Bent E or his colleagues are in danger of falling off or through the roof. Use the Internet and bar-ba.dk, for example, to find […]

Here, you can find out – among other things – what barriers you have to use when working on roofs. You can also see which scaffolding you have to put […]

Who is responsible for making sure you are safe when working on roofs?

When working on a roof, it is important for you to have plenty of space to move about and for good safety measures to be in place. For example, remember […]

If a scaffold is used, the scaffold cover must be placed no more than 1/2 m under the base of the roof, and the scaffold must be fitted with railings. […]

Before starting work, a scaffold, screen or similar must be set up at the base of the roof; if the height of the base above ground level is more than […]

Steps can be placed on the laths to ensure good working positions are maintained. There are also workbenches which can be used for positioning materials/roof tiles and machines. These workbenches […]

Working and being on the roof must be possible without risking falling from or through the roof. Keep an eye on the following: When constructing a new building, T1 laths […]

When you are to install concrete and roof tiles, you may encounter lots of hazardous situations in which it is important to know what you are doing. For instance, you […]

Roof tiles must be cut using stationary wet cutting machines placed either on a scaffold, on the ground or on a platform on laths. All roof tiles to be cut […]

Complete the sheet and see how much you know about safety.