Permanent Overhead Fall Protection Systems
Rigid Lifelines® offers a variety of fall protection and fall arrest systems for workers at height in various industries—indoors or outdoors. Depending on the needs of your facility, we can offer you one of our standard systems or develop a custom system that meets your specific needs.
Permanent fall protection systems are critical for workers who are regularly exposed to fall hazards. Because all of our systems meet or exceed Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) requirements, you can rest assured that our systems will protect your most valuable asset: your employees.
Ceiling Mounted Monorail
Rigid Lifelines® Ceiling-Mounted Monorail Anchor Track™ System is sold as individual components, a standard assembly kit, or as a custom engineered system.
This system provides straight rigid track fall protection on a fixed path for many applications, such as truck loading and unloading, vehicle or machinery maintenance, and manufacturing.
Because a ceiling-mounted monorail system does not require support columns, the system does not take floor space, which means more space for your workers.
In fact, ceiling-mounted monorail systems can easily protect workers in tall ceiling height applications.
By using existing support steel, a ceiling-mounted monorail system can easily support long runs and curves within the system design.
Traveling Bridge
Rigid Lifelines® Traveling Bridge Anchor Track™ System is ideal for larger maintenance applications, such as aircraft hangars, aircraft production facilities, transportation vehicle maintenance facilities, and industrial applications.
The Traveling Bridge system is sold as both a standard assembly kit and as a custom engineered system. This system can be ceiling mounted to a building’s existing supports or bolted to the floor with freestanding support columns and headers.
This solution provides unencumbered movement by allowing the trolley to follow the user in any direction (360 degrees) and minimizes swing fall hazards when used with a self-retracting lanyard (SRL).
Inverted L
Rigid Lifelines® Inverted-L Anchor Track™ System provides fall protection to workers who need to access the tops of vehicles, railcars, and structures.
Perfect for the transportation industry, this system utilizes concrete foundations to cover long spans.
By offering custom cantilevers or support structures, this system provides an easy and reliable way for workers to protect themselves while working at height.
Inverted U
Rigid Lifelines® Inverted-U Anchor Track™ System protects workers who are busy performing maintenance or inspections on transportation equipment or machinery.
This system may require concrete foundations, but they are smaller than the foundations required by our other freestanding systems (Inverted-L and T-Frame). Plus, this permanent system provides long spans of fall protection in areas that don’t have existing overhead structures to mount a system.
T Frame
Rigid Lifelines® T-Frame Anchor Track™ System provides fall protection that allows workers to perform maintenance and service tasks on two vehicles at the same time.
Ideal for the transportation industry, the T-Frame system can cover long spans by using required concrete foundations.
Double your protection and maximize your workspace by using the T-Frame Anchor Track™ System.
Post Suspension
Rigid Lifelines® Post Suspension Anchor Track™ System accommodates almost any application with trolley-hook heights and track lengths at virtually any height or length.
Available as a single post, multiple post, or twin bay system (tracks on both sides of posts), this system requires fewer foundations and use 60 percent less steel over conventional system designs.
By using less steel and fewer foundations, we can provide buyers with the longest spans for the least amount of money.
Freestanding Swing Arm
Rigid Lifelines® Freestanding Swing Arm Anchor Track™ System provides a versatile fall protection solution for work areas that require circular coverage.
This system can be foundation mounted (freestanding) and has 360-degree arm rotation. The Swing Arm can swing out as needed and swing back out of the way of overhead cranes.
Both the Swing Arm and its trolley follow the worker, keeping the trolley positioned directly above the user at all times—minimizing swing fall hazards. Standard fall protection spans range from five to 30 feet with standard system weights between 530 and 4,665 pounds.
Column Mounted Swing Arm
Rigid Lifelines® Column-Mounted Swing Arm Anchor Track™ System provides a versatile fall protection solution for work areas that require semi-circular coverage.
This system can be mounted to existing wall columns (column-mounted) and has a 180-degree arm rotation. The Swing Arm can swing out as needed and swing back out of the way of overhead cranes.
Both the Swing Arm and its trolley follow the worker, keeping the trolley positioned directly above the user at all times—minimizing swing fall hazards. Standard fall protection spans range from six to 30 feet with standard system weights between 200 and 2,285 pounds.
Column Mounted Fold-Away
Rigid Lifelines® Fold-Away Anchor Track™ System works perfectly for facilities that need a fall arrest solution that folds up and out of the way. This system is often used in facilities where workers need protection under overhead cranes, floor space is unusable, or maintenance is occurring in narrow bays with no workable ceilings.
When the arms are fully extended, the system provides workers with a fixed path of rigid track fall protection. Users can travel up to 30 degrees off-center of the track. When not in use, the track and its arms can be folded against their support columns (e.g., the wall), leaving room for large overhead cranes.
Locking mechanisms keep the system locked in place during use or storage. Track lengths of 40 feet or more allow multiple work areas to be covered by a single fall protection system.
See also: Mobile Overhead Fall Protection Systems