Tanker top safety idea
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AN employee's solution to protecting men working on the top of tankers during their construction, has been adopted at Crane Fruehauf's plant at Dereham, Norfolk.
The problem arose because during the final stages of construction, the company's fitter/welders have to work on top of the cylindrical tanks with barely any level surface on which to stand.
Alternative methods used to protect employees from falling, such as mobile working platforms, caused additional problems in that they impeded the actual tanker construction.
Fitter/welder Graham Woodrow, who himself works on tank construction, came up with his own simple answer — a home made handrail.
His idea was to attach to each side of the three covers on the tanker top tubular uprights, to which in turn aluminium tubing was