Window Cleaning Safety Tips

Why Inspect Your Safety Gear?

Gear and safety inspection is a high priority when it comes to window cleaning tall commercial buildings. It can be a chore, but it's not one to overlook.

The main reason to inspect is, of course, safety. “Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) exists to keep you safe, and if there’s a weak point in the gear, it needs to be identified by inspection before putting it into service,” explained Bill Moor from Petzl. If you plan to trust your life or your employee’s life to a piece of equipment, you want to make sure that it’s operating correctly. The consequences of damaged or worn equipment could be injury or death.

Having equipment fail inspections without having a replacement ready can lead to lost time on jobs. Regular inspections help you spot equipment that may be nearing end-of-life, allowing you to plan for replacement.

Why Track Safety Inspections?

Inspecting your gear is an essential first step. The next step is to keep track of your inspections. A log of inspections helps you trace the usage of a particular device, which is critical if you retire your equipment at certain intervals. For example, if you retire and replace your rope every 3 years, you need to keep track of the age of each rope.

Logs are extremely crucial in larger window cleaning crews where gear management is more complex. You could have equipment like ropes, harnesses, or carabiners that are shared. In that case, the current user will want to be able to refer to the inspection history on the gear they’ll be using that day. Checks and Balances.

You won't know what to replace until it's broken.

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