INDUSTRY PROFILE
INDUSTRY PROFILE
Rigid Lifelines™, a division of the industry leading material handling company, Spanco, Inc., engineers and manufactures overhead fall protection systems that utilize enclosed steel and aluminum track with a rolling trolley. Rigid Lifelines provides a ground breaking alternative to wire rope fall protection systems and its solutions provide decreased fall distance through their rigid design that eliminates deflection during a fall event. Rigid Lifelines manufactures several types of horizontal fall arrest systems that are used in the aircraft industry, most notably, the traveling bridge system.
Traveling Bridge systems are designed to be mounted to the ceiling of large maintenance hangars and aircraft production facilities. These systems are unique to the aircraft industry and perfectly accommodate hangars that house a variety of aircraft with varying wing and stabilizer heights, and changing positions. Each system is made up of two runways on which one or more bridges traverse. The bridge has a rolling trolley that provides an easy attachment point for the safety lanyard. The combination
of the ergonomic movement of the bridge on the runways and the trolley on the bridge provides for a dual axis of movement. This means unrestrained ease of use for the worker and total coverage under the system. It also translates into the attachment point remaining centered over the worker’s head at all times, which is something not possible with wire rope or I-beam systems. Due to this feature, the traveling bridge system eliminates the possibility of a swing fall, an event that occurs after the user has walked away from their attachment point and fallen. When the user’s lanyard deploys to arrest the freefall, the user swings back to the attachment point. The greater the distance the user travels during the swing fall, the more speed they gather. This speed translates into an impact that can result in injury, costly damage to the aircraft, or even death.
To learn more about Rigid Lifelines Traveling Bridge systems and how they can protect your workers, please visit
www.rigidlifelines.com.
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