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Quickly onto the scaffolding. With safety.
Layher offers a number of variants for scaffolding access. In addition to the standard solution – the integrated ladder access – Layher‘s range for its customers also includes external platform stairways for the various scaffolding systems. With this variant, scaffolding erectors can offer their customers many advantages over the standard solution: faster ascent and descent, problem-free carrying of working materials or tools, and greater safety thanks to wide tread surfaces and guardrails. A service that will quickly convince the end customers – perhaps after a free-of-charge trial assembly. And that will pay off accordingly. Good reasons why scaffolding construction in recent years has been clearly trending towards the platform stairway.
Access using this stairway is easy and convenient – one hand is always free. Visitors to the site also appreciate the advantages of the Layher platform stairway, particularly when they aren‘t in their working clothes when they access the scaffolding. Working on the scaffolding level is also much more convenient with the Layher platform stairway, since there are no ladders obstructing the way, nor is there any need to keep opening and closing the access hatches provided in the scaffolding decks. Another advantage is rapid ascent and descent with this stairway – even when carrying working materials and tools: measurements at Layher have shown there is a time saving of over 40 percent compared with ladder access.
And not least is the fact that the platform stairway is much safer during ascent and descent thanks to its wide tread areas and its guardrail. In the legal sense too: the draft of the German Technical Rules for Industrial Safety (TRBS 2121) Part 1 that specifies precise details for the Ordinance on Industrial Health and Safety also provides assistance when it comes to accesses to working areas on scaffolding structures. Particularly in the case of extensive work, when conveying large amounts of material or when the ascent height inside the scaffolding exceeds 10 meters, the TRBS will in future require stairways or lifts instead of ladders for access. To further optimize scaffolding access with the platform stairway, Layher has now designed two new components – the stair guardrail for the stairwell and the U-distance coupler.
 
stair guardrail for the stairwell U-distance coupler
A much faster and less expensive assembly is possible with the stair guardrail for stairwell from Layher. The new one-piece component supersedes the previous design using 4 individual parts. As a result, the assembly duration can be minimized from about 2.5 minutes to about 20 seconds. When fitting the new stair guardrail, the savings when compared to the previous solution using individual parts are not only 80 % of the costs, but also 80 % of the assembly time.The new U-distance coupler connects the stairway tower to the main scaffolding in a simple, quick and absolutely safe manner. To reduce the gap between the stairway landing and the main deck, the stairway tower now no longer has to be arranged offset from the scaffolding. The integrated U-section of the distance coupler acts as an additional support for the scaffolding decks. With the SpeedyScaf 70 equipment, the U-distance coupler allows the use of a 0.19 m wide standard deck as a gap cover between the main deck and the platform stairway. Separate and individual gap covers are no longer needed, so less material is used.
In charge of PR enquiries or contacts with the press:
Ms. Andrea Beisswenger
E-Mail Andrea.Beisswenger@layher.com
Telephone +49 71 35 / 70-0
Fax +49 71 35 / 7070-422
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