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Using their revolutionary Bridge Access System, Safespan®,
Turner Access has once again successfully installed
their cable suspended platform technology on a critical
822m long road bridge; under the M8 motorway in Glasgow.
The road bridge spans the River Clyde and is situated
directly in front of the main terminal building at
Glasgow Airport.
Safespan® provides a large, continuous safe
working platform area, to facilitate multi-operations
being carried out at the same time and has been
installed between two PlusEight® Birdcage
Scaffolds which the company has also erected around the
piers on either side of the river.
Jim
Church the company’s Health & Safety Manager said –
“Our
erection procedures with Safespan® ensure
that our installers are at no time exposed to the
leading edge and the risk of fall, this meets with our
company policy to adopt techniques which are at the
forefront of fall elimination in the Access Industry”.
Turner Access has pioneered the erection of scaffolds,
adopting new erection methodology and equipment, which
provides collective protection throughout the process;
thereby eliminating mitigation measures such as
harnesses continue to break new ground with their safe
systems of work.
Additionally, Turner Access has implemented an
innovative solution which addresses security
considerations at the project site; using PlusEight®
scaffold, with no protruding tubes to overcome,
Turner Access has installed special steel sheets from
the Safespan® underbridge system, as
cladding, all around the base of the birdcage scaffold;
this has achieved heights of 6m and includes secure
integral access doors, which provides an excellent base
for other security measures to be added making the
location highly secure for the client
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