General Roof Repairs
Slating, Tenement Roof Repairs, Flat Roofing , Downpipe Repairs, Chimney Repairs, Velux/Sky Light Installations, Stonework Repairs.
Lead Work and Guttering
At Latto's we pride ourselves on providing the highest quality of lead work and guttering solutions.
Roof Anchors
Latto's are 'Third Part Accredited Roof Anchor Installers and Certifiers', meaning when we fit your anchors you can be safe in the knowledge that they have been correctly installed by a fully qualified professional.
Scaffolding and Cherry Picker Access
Latto's can provide you with appropriate access solutions specific to your needs, in the form of both scaffolding and Cherry Picker mobile platform hire.
Building Defects, diagnostics and Solutions
No matter what the issue faced is we will be able to provide you with an appropriate and complete solution.
Construction Fixings
Latto's are Constructions fixings testers and installers of fall-arrest anchors and horizontal line systems. For more information on why ensuring safe access and egress is essential when working at height please take a look at our home page or e-mail us for more information.
Health & Safety:
Why hire a professional where working at heights is required?
"Falls from height remain the most common kind of workplace fatality" -1
By law, ensuring operative safety is a responsibility of the client.
"Health and safety responsibilities are defined by the criminal law and cannot be passed on from one party to another by a contract. In any client/contractor relationship, both parties will have duties under health and safety law” -2
The Risks of working at heights – Statistically speaking:
"In the construction industry alone there were 23 workers killed, and 3,409 seriously injured after falling from height (in 2007) -3, a startling figure for an industry which specialises in the field. The most common causes for these accidents usually stem from one of the following:”
- Safety mechanisms, such as roof anchors, not being correctly installed/certified
- Safety mechanisms not being in place at all
- Operatives not using the safety equipment provided for them
- Operatives not receiving the appropriate training
In short working at heights is considered and known to be dangerous work, and its safety aspects are not to be taken lightly or overlooked. What you may have been unaware of is that it is not only the contractors who are obliged to ensure that these risks are managed appropriately; As a client you are also legally bound to take steps to ensure the health and safety of contractors employees who work on your buildings.
In short working at heights is considered and known to be dangerous work, and its safety aspects are not to be taken lightly or overlooked. What you may have been unaware of is that it is not only the contractors who are obliged to ensure that these risks are managed appropriately; As a client you are also legally bound to take steps to ensure the health and safety of contractors employees who work on your buildings.
If you'd like more information on Health & Safety and how it affects you then we'd be more than happy to help, just get in touch.
1. http://www.hse.gov.uk/falls/ - 10th August 2009
2. Use of Contractors, A Joint Responsibility - HSE
3. Stephen Farthing - http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2008/gnnwm17708.htm
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