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Safety Net Recovery System

Construction’s Fastest Inflatable System

If one of your site operatives falls unconscious into a safety net, they can easily be rescued in under 3-minutes using our unique recovery system – helping to save their life.

Recovery Height

Our largest system can recover someone from a floor-to-floor height of around 4.5m. Our standard system at around 3.0m.

This soft-landing Safety Net Recovery System is available for short-term and long-term hire – please contact us for a quote.

Free Training

We’ll show you how to use the system at our purpose-built training centre in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Prefer us to come to you? Talk to us.

Life Saving Innovation

Quick recovery is vital with heart attacks, fits and blood loss – it saves lives. Without CPR, cardiac arrest can be fatal within minutes. While waiting for rescue from a net, exposure to very cold temperatures can cause Hypothermia. With the Safety Net Recovery System, safe recovery can be made within 3-minutes.

Award Winning

Our system has won multiple industry awards – including best health and safety award from FASET (Fall Arrest Safety Equipment Training) which is the trade association and industry training body for safety netting and temporary safety systems.

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Features & Benefits

Modular

System comes as a standard kit of parts and is stored in its own bag

Lightweight

System weighs 25kg and can be stored on the floor below the netted area

Fast

Battery powered with total inflation time of around 1- minute for our small system and 1.5 minutes for our large system. Deflation time around 2-minutes

Safe

Method statement available to put straight into RAMS

Flexible

Floor-to-floor height recovery is around 3.0m for our standard system and 4.5m for our larger system

Strong

Stranded operative weighing up to 150kg can be recovered

Handleable

Pulled on a trolley with stair climber wheels

Unique

There’s no other system like this in the industry

Richard Cresswell, Operations Supervisor

The safety net recovery system was a solution to a problem where floor heights and obstructions meant that we couldn’t get a MEWP to the underside of the safety net for rescue. The net was installed by rope access technicians, but we needed an alternative method of rescue from below. At the time, there wasn’t a system that would work to the height we were looking for, so we approached the team at Brilliant Ideas.

They custom-built a larger airbag system for us, giving us recovery from a floor-to-floor height of around 4.5m. We used it on a challenging project with very strict safety measures in place.

Our operatives in charge attended a training day at Brilliant Ideas training centre, so that they were fully prepared should they need to use it – which they didn’t. The simplicity of this net recovery system solved and overcame a problem on this project.

We would definitely look to implement this solution again.

Safety Net Recovery System Videos

Inflatable Safety Net Recovery System in action

Safety Net Recovery Interview with Brilliant Idea’s Dan Westgate

A safe descent for those in need

When it comes to safely working at height, especially on steel framed buildings, safety nets are the most commonly used form of fall protection. The safety nets are positioned tightly beneath the work area, so if a worker falls, they are caught in the net; and if they are not injured they can climb out. But if they’re unable to recover themselves, they have to be retrieved from the net by others – a procedure often overlooked in most method statements.

This oversight was highlighted to Brilliant Ideas during a routine site installation in 2017. While working at height, one member of the Beresford’s Flooring installation team went into cardiac arrest. Although colleagues close by performed CPR until the paramedics arrived and despite the best efforts of everyone, our friend died in hospital a few days later.

Safety Net Recovery System Set Up

Step 1: Place the zipped bag close to the casualty and remove the kit of parts.

Step 2: Unfold the airbag underneath the casualty in the net – red side up.

Step 3: Place the stretcher into the centre of the airbag and secure it into place by passing the six straps around the frame of the stretcher and clicking them shut.

Step 4: As the stretcher is being secured into position, use the two-lithium battery powered blowers to start inflating the airbag. This will take around 1-minute. As the airbag inflates, it creates a safe high sided well to make sure the operative doesn’t roll out during decent. When the airbag is inflated, keep the blowers on tick over mode until the net is fully cut.

Step 5: With the casualty fully supported by the airbag and stretcher, fasten the two poles for each cutter and use both of them to cut the safety netting.

Step 6: When the net is free, open the airbag zips to deflate and lower it. Use the handles to steady and accelerate air loss from airbag until the casualty is safely on the floor. Deflation takes around 2-minutes.

Step 7: If the casualty has suffered a cardiac arrest, perform CPR straight away.

Step 8: If the paramedics are not yet on the scene and circumstances require it, unclip the stretcher and carry the casualty closer to the site entrance, to save valuable seconds for when the emergency services arrive. Use the foil blankets in the first aid kit to keep the casualty warm.