subject: Safety Ladders For A Job Well Done [print this page] Having a safe pair of hands around the house to do the DIY tasks that keep the place ticking over is an important thing. If you are lucky to be or have someone who can take on that role then you will be able to make some significant savings down the line.
One of the key principles involved in DIY is of health and safety, whilst this is monitored in the workplace, in the home it is the responsibility for the homeowner and the person carrying out the DIY to be fully prepared and aware of all the risks before the work is carried out.
This could be as simple as putting up some shelves, the risks here are that within the wall there are electrical cables, so the first step would be to check this, there are of course various instruments that can tell you if there is a latent charge coming from the wall, by emitting a noise this will warn you when you are close the wiring.
There is also a circuit breaker that you can attach to the plug of the drill so that should anything cause an overload the circuit will automatically break and thus hopefully prevent injury or death.
In the majority of cases, even the smallest jobs around the house will require some sort of stepladder. This is of course not always the case but it is always a good idea to own a safety ladder, so that if you do need to gain access to something at a height you don't need to use a chair or stool, which can be dangerous. A safety ladder is designed to provide the user with a safe passage to the elevation that they require to get the work done, whether this is inside or outside.
There are countless accidents involving ladders every year, mainly because those who are using them have no idea of the risks involved, or even the correct angle they should be placed at. The safety ladder overcomes this by allowing the user to erect the ladder in one quick movement, plus they often come with side rails and an extra large and high support bar.
The benefits of which are clear, when you start to use the safety ladder. The main risk of going up a step ladder is that more often than not the support bar is very small, the side rails are too close to the rungs or steps, this not only makes them too small to act as sufficient support, but actually makes them a trip and hand trap hazard.
The safety ladder overcomes this simply by being bigger, all the while providing that extra bit of reassurance when you are up a height. It is often the smaller heights that make us feeler the least stable, the safety ladder helps to allay those fears and ensure that when there is a DIY job on the horizon we are confident that if it is at a height we can not only reach it and complete it but do the job in safety.
