Working safely at height

Many production and maintenance sites use scaffolding and platforms to work at height. Here, local safety requirements are always observed. A common question is to prevent people, tools or equipment from falling through unprotected openings.

Because you cannot always have a scaffold or platform connected to an object to be maintained, produced or repaired, a longer narrow opening often arises there, which can lead to unwanted incidents. Tools or equipment can fall between them and employees can get hurt or worse, fall between them.

Commonly used in maintenance of trains

The flexible inflatable connections are mainly used in the maintenance of trains in depots, to improve working conditions and safety. Buitink Technology's inflatable fall protection systems are also used during the final assembly of trains in the production process.

Solution for closing unwanted gaps

Buitink Technology has come up with a solution to close off these unwanted openings with an inflatable fall protection system.

The inflatable fall protection system is cleverly mounted to the platform or scaffold, after which it is connected to the air system. This air system fills the bellows with air until the correct pressure is reached. In this way, the bellows fills the space between the platform or scaffold and the object to be repaired or maintained. In our visuals, this object is for example a train carriage. But it could just as easily be a tall trailer, camper or airplane fuselage.

After use, the bellows can be vacuumed by the same air system, after which the object can be moved. Both filling and emptying take little time.

Automated filling and vacuum process

By adjusting the air system to the specific application and volume of the bellows, this entire filling and vacuum process can be fully automated. This also ensures that no errors can occur and that work can be done safely. The dimensions are in most cases never exactly the same, Buitink Technology is able to engineer, produce and install a suitable solution for every situation.

Advantages of the Buitink Technology Fall Protection System

• The prefabricated system can be assembled plug and play anywhere in the world;
• Is delivered including air installation or tuned to local air system;
• Robust and fully automated system;
• Can be applied to every platform and scaffold;
• A system that greatly improves work safety;
• Assembly by our own Buitink Technology assembly team;
• Or by our own facilities department under the supervision of the Buitink Technology assembly team;
• Fast filling and vacuum times;
• Special customization always possible;
• 100% Dutch product made by a dedicated team of local professionals.

Engineering fall protection by airsystem

Orientation tests

Orientation tests regarding the clamping force of the tube, at different pressures.

Transport inflatable tube set

A complete installation consisting of 4 tubes of 30 meters and the air system with air hoses can be packed in only 2 pallet boxes of 120 x 80 x 175 cm. The total weight is about 750 kg.