Stairway/Platform System

22 Guard-rail systems often comprise a huge range of varied fasteners. That is not the case in the Stairway/Platform System. Five fasteners are all it takes to cover all requirements. They link stanchions with stairways or platforms, connect to hand-rails and provide a secure hold for knee-rails. That makes things much easier for design engineers, who don’t have to use separate components for each individual job. If the construction has to be modified at a later point in time, the existing components can be reused very easily. What’s more, far fewer individual parts need to be held in stock. Guard-rails in the Stairway/Platform System are cylindrical, clean and safe. Stanchions and hand-rails are made from Profiles 8 D40 with one or two grooves that can be sealed to form clean, closed cylindrical surfaces, thereby giving dirt no place to hide and mini- mising injury hazards. Slimline Profile 6 D30 4N is used to form knee-rails. The Stairway/Platform System is geared up for the construction of mandatory safety features such as knee and foot-rails. As a result, users have no trouble complying with – and even exceeding – stipulations laid down by the ISO and statutory accident insur- ance and prevention institutions in Germany. For example, foot-rails made from Profile 8 120x16 E are 20 mm higher than the specifications set out in DIN EN ISO 14122. Safety really can be convenient – the guard-rails.