<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As I understand it, OSHA regs don't require you to purchase a certain product. We built our own bases (2x4s, and saw horses, etc) and weighted them with extra ballast blocks from the PV ballasting. We also used a regular rope with the required strength, and hung warning flagging along with it.<div>The problem I see with your install, is that I believe the warning line needs to be 6 ft from the edge, so you'll have to rope in etc, to do that first row, and then put up the warning line (on top of the first row?)</div><div>We never had an OSHA inspection, so I can't say for sure that our method is 100% compliant, but it met all the requirements as I interpreted them.</div><div>This may be like an inspection issue: call and ask the local OSHA office having jurisdiction before, to make sure you have what they want to see.</div><div>Pretty funny, cause I see roofers just running all over the place with no safety stuff at all. They reroofed my house: a 25 ft fall off a 8:12 pitch, and the guys were right at the edge sitting on a foam pad, with NO ROPE!</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 2, 2011, at 10:57 AM, North Texas Renewable Energy Inc wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div><font face="Arial"></font><br><p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">OSHA compliant Wrenches<br>we're about to begin aPV
installation along the lower edge of a 100 foot long metal building. Because of
skylights down the middle of the length of the E-W roof we are forced to mount
the southern-most row only about 5 feet from the 20 foot high eave. Fortunately
the slope is less than 10 degrees but perimeter warning lines are a must
here.<br>Not wanting to appear a cheapskate here but I'm not surprised at the
outrageous cost of "OSHA compliant" perimeter warning flag systems. Your basic
fold up standards with nothing more than light-weight bases and multi-colored
banner rope runs hundreds of dollars. Even sandbags for ballast are way
overpriced.<br>So where are the affordable units available or is there such a
thing? Better yet, has someone fabricated their own pro-looking standards and
used the same off-the-shelf banner rope used in the roofing catalogs? I already
have several hundred feet of banner rope just nothing to hang it from.
</font></p><p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">thanks as always</font></p><p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Jim Duncan<br>North Texas Renewable Energy<br>NABCEP
Certified Solar PV<br>Installer No.031310-57<br>TECL
27398<br><a href="mailto:ntrei@1scom.net">ntrei@1scom.net</a> <br>817.917.0527<br><a href="http://www.ntrei.com">www.ntrei.com</a><br><br></font></p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font></div>
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