Fixed access ladders
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Fixed access ladders VECTALADDER® are a device to secure authorized personnel safety access to industrial buildings, facilities or technical terraces. They are one the widest fixed access ladders in today’s market (60 cm wide). This guarantees an optimal user comfort allowing easy access to the roof with materials. Our safety ladders are made of aluminium. They are a lightweight and maintenance-free device.
Fixed access ladders uses
Fixed access ladders VECTALADDER® are permanently attached to structural elements of buildings as well as to machines and industrial devices. A wide range of fixings and the lightness of the ladder itself allow installation on metal decks or sandwich panels’ walls. The minimum metal thickness required is 0.63mm. Our VECTALADDER® fixed access ladders fit with our safety systems, such as: roof railings or technical platforms.
Our ladders are made of aluminium and the finish is at an excellent level. The standard raw aluminium finish ensures a C3 corrosion category. Other finishes on request, such as anodized aluminium, thermal varnishing and matched to any RAL colour. Thermal varnishing (powder coating) is a process that ensures adequate protection of the aluminium railings coating. This is recommended by the manufacturer when the ladder is installed in highly corrosive environments, exposed to chemicals, polluted areas or near the sea.
Because our fixed access ladders are designed as a modular structure, the assembly of them is quite simple. Ladder assembling consist of joining ready-made elements and screwing them together in accordance with the instructions provided by the manufacturer. The scope of delivery includes all screws and steel fixings depending on the characteristics of the support.
Advantages installing fixed access ladders VECTALADDER®
- one of the widest ladders of this type on today’s market (60 cm wide). Ensures optimal users comfort allowing easy access to the roof with materials.
- non-slip 30×30 mm rungs 60 cm width guarantees the maximum level of safety.
- made of aluminum. They do not require any maintenance as in the case of steel ladders
- modular design ensures very quick assembly
- possibility of easy fixing to a metal deck wall or sandwich panels
- possibility of matching to any RAL color
Possibility to install the LDV VECTALINE® vertical fall arrest system. It is intended to prevent fall arrest for user’s ladder. The slider (self-locking mechanism) travel up and down the rope during the normal moving of the user. In the event of a fall, the slider locks on the rope to arrest the fall.
Legal basis – European standard EN ISO 14122-4
VECTALADDER® fixed access ladders complies with the European standard EN ISO 14122-4 relating to permanent means of access to machines. They positively passed all the tests required by the above-mentioned standard.
Final conclusions
Fixed access ladders VECTALADDER® are one the widest fixed access ladders in today’s market (60 cm wide). This guarantees an optimal user comfort allowing easy access to the roof with materials. Unlike steel ladders, VECTALADDER® aluminium ladders do not require any maintenance. They are a lightweight device very easy to assemble. Ladders made of aluminium allow saving on the costs associated with the operation of the building, which arise with the use of steel ladders.
If you want to read more about securing your roof with collective protection equipment (CPE), we recommend you reading our guide. You can save a lot of money throughout the entire operating time of the building.