Engineered fall arrest and restraint systems — mansafe horizontal lifelines, anchor points and guardrails. Designed, installed and certified to BS EN and HSE standards.
A mansafe system — technically a BS EN 795 Class C horizontal lifeline — is a continuous wire-rope safety system installed across rooftops, facades and walkways to protect operatives working at height. Workers clip on at a single point and traverse the full span without unclipping, with shock-absorbing energy absorbers in the line keeping fall arrest loads within safe limits. 'Mansafe' is the buyer-facing term for the product category; the legacy Mansafe Tractel brand made the name synonymous with horizontal lifelines in the UK. Apex installs and services systems from all leading manufacturers — Latchways (now MSA Safety), Kee Safety (Kee Walk + Kee Line), Capital Safety, Heightec and others — across rooftop maintenance routes, facade access, plant rooms, atria and industrial structures. All installations are BS EN 795 / BS 7883 compliant with full project documentation, load testing and annual recertification.
Part of Fall Protection Division.
Discrete BS EN 795 Class A anchors fixed at engineered positions for fall arrest, restraint and rope-access tie-back. We confirm the substrate and load path on survey, install to manufacturer spec on steel, concrete, masonry or membrane, and proof-load test every anchor at commissioning.
Continuous BS EN 795 Class C wire-rope lifelines — Latchways, Kee Line, MSA and other approved systems — that let operatives clip on once and traverse a full rooftop or facade run. Designed to the roof geometry and user numbers, installed by manufacturer-trained engineers and recertified annually under BS 7883.
BS EN 353-1 vertical fall-arrest systems on facades, towers, masts and fixed-ladder runs — a cleaner, easier-to-inspect alternative to a traditional ladder cage. Travelling shuttles arrest a fall without restricting the climb, sized to the structure and the height.
Arrest systems that protect from above — for production lines, loading bays, vehicle and tanker tops, and maintenance bays where edge protection or a foot-level lifeline can't reach. Rigid or wire systems suspended from the structure, or freestanding portals, engineered to the work area and access pattern.
Rigid-rail fall-arrest track for overhead and horizontal use — a smooth, hands-free traverse with the highest load tolerance, used where a flexible wire system isn't suitable or several users share a run. Track, trolleys and end-stops sized to span and loading, fixed to the supporting structure.
Permanent, mechanically-fixed edge protection to roof edges, walkways and plant platforms — collective protection that needs no user PPE, training or clip-on discipline. The first-choice solution wherever the structure allows a fixed rail, specified to the roof perimeter and access route.
Counter-weighted, non-penetrative guardrails for membrane, asphalt and single-ply roofs where penetrations would void the warranty. Ballast-weighted bases give collective edge protection without a single fixing into the structure — ideal for retrofit on warranty-protected roofs.
Mansafe and fall arrest systems are required on any structure where personnel access the roof, facade or high-level plant for inspection, maintenance or cleaning. Apex installs across the UK.
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