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The one-day Building at Heights summit has been held in Dubai’s Westin hotel, with a variety of speakers from all areas of the construction industry.
Andrew Broderick, a health and safety manager at Aldar, started the event by stressing the need for greater safety, but added that advancements in the UAE had been made in the last five years. His sentiments were echoed by Abdulaziz from the Ministry of Labour who followed on stage.
David Gratteau, an engineer from VSL Heavylift explained the importance of keeping objects tidy and affixing tools such as hammers to an anchor point. “Even a light object, such as a screw or a nut could cause serious injury when falling from 200 meters” he said.
Barney Green, a manager of fall-arrest specialist Combisafe suggested that better planning and prefabrication on the ground was an answer. “Lift managers should start by planning how working at height could be avoided in the first place” he said, using an example from the previous speaker’s talk about how the spire of the Burj Khalifa was constructed inside the building and then jacked into position – thus removing the need to have people clambering over the scaffold tubes.
The event was attended by a capacity crowd of around 220 people.
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