Safety Net Recovery System

The Safety Net Recovery System is a very simple way of recovering a site operative who has fallen from height into a safety net.

This innovative and unique system is the winner of two health and safety industry awards from both British Precast and Fall Arrest Safety Equipment Training (FASET), the established trade association and training body for the safety netting and temporary safety systems industry.

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Features and 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 2- minutes and deflation time 1-minute
Safe – Method statement available to put straight into RAMS
Flexible – Recovers up to a height of 2.9m which can be used on floor-to-floor heights of 3.5m
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

If a site operative falls into a safety net when they’re unconscious and in need of immediate medical care, at present, the best site emergency net recovery plan isn’t quick and presents a risk to life. For a paramedic to provide urgent medical care, the operative would need to be lowered to the ground.

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.

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Our foreman at the time happened to mention, that in many ways, we’d been lucky that he’d collapsed onto scaffolding rather than falling into the safety net. This way, we were able to get to him, perform CPR and get him down from the scaffolding. If he’d fallen into the safety net, then that would have been difficult, if not impossible to get to him.

Full training on how to use the Net Recovery System is available at our purpose-built carbon neutral training centre, in Ashbourne Derbyshire.

NET RECOVERY SET-UP

Step 1: Site operative falls unconscious into the net

Step 2: Safety Net Recovery System [SNRS] is placed underneath the net

Step 3: The Net Recovery Bag is folded under the net

Step 4: Stretcher is clipped onto the Recovery Bag

Step 5: Recovery Bag is inflated

Step 6: The Net is cut

Step 7: The Recovery Bag is deflated

Step 8: Casualty is now safely on the floor

The Safety Net Recovery System in action

If a site operative falls into the net unconscious, the air bag can be quickly and easily placed on the floor beneath the casualty suspended in the net.
A long-life lithium powered battery inflates the bag to a maximum 2.9 meters in less than 2-minutes.
The bag inflates a deep lip around its upper perimeter which automatically centralises the person onto a stretcher sitting within this well.
Now, the casualty is now fully supported by the bag and stretcher, which allows the rescuers to cut the safety netting, freeing the victim to be lowered to the floor by deflating the air bag.
The process takes less than one minute once the casualty is safely on the floor, and they can start to receive lifesaving treatment.
If the paramedics are still not on the scene and circumstances require it, the stretcher can be unclipped and the casualty carried closer to the site entrance, saving valuable seconds for when the emergency services arrive.