COLLECTIVE PROTECTIONS

When construction is carried out, there are generally protections to safeguard the life and integrity of the people who work in it.

The protections are divided into 2: collective and individual. The collective ones are those that are placed for the protection of all the personnel in general; The individual ones, are those that takes each person or worker, like, for example: the helmets and boots of security.

Some of the general protections used in works are:

• Protective awnings or visors: made of rigid and resistant materials, placed in areas where workers pass where there is a risk of falling objects from higher levels.


• Protection nets against the risk of falling from the edges of the slab: these are usually tray type or more commonly the nets type.

• Railings for the protection of holes and edges of forged: they are structures on the work surface to avoid the fall of materials. They must have a minimum height of 90 centimeters, intermediate strip and skirting board of sufficient height (usually recommended 15 centimeters).

OTHER COLLECTIVE PROTECTIONS

Probably one of the things that abound more in the constructions are the holes. For them there are also certain measures of protection. For example:

• Use of sound wooden boards, resistant, stable and properly falcated so that they can not move or lose their protective function.

• Use of handrails so that they cover the entire perimeter of the opening.

• Horizontal networks, used in the execution of slabs to avoid falling to different levels of workers from the formwork, in the placement of this one.



• Plugs commonly known as "mushrooms". They are objects to protect "The armors". These can cause cuts, tripping, but, above all, can cause serious injury to a worker if it falls on them.