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ZinCo GmbH
Lise-Meitner-Strasse 2 ∙ 72622 Nürtingen ∙ Germany
Phone +49 7022 6003-0
[email protected] ∙ www.zinco-greenroof.com
Your roof protects your building, the contents and any valuables in it. In
order to have the benefit of a fully-functioning roof over a long period of
time, your roof must be installed professionally and must be inspected at
regular intervals during its lifetime and, where necessary, repair work
carried out. Therefore, it is important to ensure that any works on the
roof are carried out safely. The client (and later on possibly other) owner
also have a duty here and are responsible for adherence to any regulations
pertaining to occupational safety on a roof.
Fallnet
®
SB 200 Rail in combination with a solar installation (photovoltaic
or solar thermal) or a railing system and a correspondingly high load of
suitable bulk material (e.g. ZinCo system soil, Zincolit
®
, gravel 16/32 mm
or slabs in a chippings bed) represents an anchoring device in accordance
with DIN EN 795:2012 types D and E for fall protection on flat roofs with
a roof pitch of up to 5°.
1.Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail - System components:
a. Solar Base plates
ZinCo Solar Base
®
SB 200 or GB or GB corner, of hard plastic (ABS),
length ca. 2.0 x 1.0 m, height ca. 43 mm, with integrated aluminium
profiles and two fastening screws; can be used as support plates, e.g. for
the ZinCo SGR solar base frames or in conjunction with corresponding
post holders made of galvanised steel for a wide range of railing
solutions.
At least five solar bases mechanically connected to each other in
conjunction with a load form the basis to absorb and transfer load in the
event of a fall. The load of at least 120 kg/m² (incl. superstructures such
as PV modules) for roof pitches up to 2° or 140 kg/m² for roof pitches
>2° to 5° can be applied e.g. in the form of ZinCo system soil, gravel
16/32 mm or comparable bulk material or, in the case of railing
solutions, in the form of slabs in a bed of chippings.
b. SB Rail support
The connection between the solar bases and the rail is made by SB Rail
holders made of stainless steel. These are available in lengths of 0,6 m
and 1,2 m. The multiple perforation of the holders makes it possible to
mount them on the fastening screw of the base plate in such a way that
the rail later runs with sufficient distance to the PV modules or to the
railing and the specified distance to the fall edge is maintained.
c. Rail with runner, further accessory
The supports are connected by an anchorage rail made of high quality
aluminium. A mobile attachment point runs along the rail on its four
stainless steel rollers (therefore also called “runner”). The carabineer
hook of the personal protective equipment can only be attached to the
eyelet of this runner. In order to prevent the runner from slipping off the
rail at its ends, end pieces with “stoppers” must be mounted there. The
single pieces of the rail, which have a length of up to 6 m, are held
together by special butt joint connectors. Gaps between two pieces shall
not exceed 5 mm.
d. Documents
The delivery scope includes the following documents, which the installer
must hand to the client:
- Installation Instructions
- User Instructions
- Control Card. Please record the serial number of the Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail in the chart. This number can be found on the
identification label attached to the product. Fallnet
®
SB200-
Rail must be inspected regularly.
Furthermore the following documents need to be handed over:
- installation documentation
- eventually separate site planning (if planning was done by ZinCo).
If the planning has not been carried out by ZinCo, it must be
approved by ZinCo Application Engineering.
2. Scope and requirements for use
Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail must only be used for the intended purpose as a
fixing device for personal protection equipment. Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail
must not be used for lifting weights or for attaching objects. Any
modification or addition to any of the system components requires the
prior written permission of the manufacturer.
Please note also:
-
Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail may only be used by max. 1 person (max. 100 kg,
including equipment) in conjunction with personal protective equipment
(PPE, such as the ZinCo PPE-Set) acc. To EN 363. The harness according
to EN 361 may only be used with tested and approved components.
- Additional persons (max. 100 kg, including equipment) can use the rail
system with an additional anchorage point (runner) if it is ensured that a
distance of at least 4.5 metres (3 free rail holders) is maintained.
- The use of Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail is permitted up to a maximum roof
inclination of 5° in the direction of the edge which is to be secured.
- Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail should only be installed on suitable subsurfaces
e.g. either on the filter sheet (multi-layer build-up) or on a protective
mat (mono-layer build-up), see Installation Instructions.
Important: Direct contact between the load (bulk material) and the grid
elements is required at all times.
If the site planning is done by ZinCo GmbH, Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail is
always applied as a fall arrest system. This means that it is planned with a
uniform rope length, which is dimensioned so that the roof edge can be
reached, but one can not fall at all. The planning can be done in such a
way that the rail runs partly through the area at risk of falling (≤ 2 m to the
fall edge), provided that the entry point is located outside the danger zone.
Nevertheless, misuse - in particular an incorrectly set rope length - can
never be completely ruled out. Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail has therefore
proven in extensive tests that it can also reliably absorb a fall.
Precondition for this is that the minimum fall distance to the ground (fall
height) must be such as to prevent a person hitting the ground in the
case of a fall event and to allow the person to swing freely.
The required minimum fall distance to the ground (potential impact area) is
resulting from the following parameters:
- the part of the connecting device being pulled over the fall edge
(= maximum rope length to the fall edge minus the shortest rope
length, rectangular to the fall edge),
- height the person attached,
- stretch of rope and safety harness
- rupture distance of the fall absorber
- displacement and deformation of fixing device (max. 1.0 m) and
- 1.0 m safety value.
User Instructions
Fallnet
®
SB 200-Rail
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