Since the end of the 1st
semester 2004, our new small studs are
equipping our lifelines.
So far,
GAMESYSTEM has been using a square small
stud mechanically welded with a
standard height that matched the major
part of the situations we were facing.
Nevertheless, when the height had to be
changed, a specific manufacturing and an
anticorrosive treatment were needed. All
of this used to delay our intervention on
the customer sites.
With more than
25 years of experience in the field of the
protection against falls from height,
GAMESYSTEM developed a new concept for the
implementation of the anchoring
system. Simplicity, reactivity,
adaptability and resistance were the main
issues for the elaboration of our
specifications. Because we have been
sustained in our researches by the ANVAR
(French Agency for Innovation and Research),
the result reached our expectations.
Protected by
many patents, a small stud was born. It is
composed of different parts:
For the
setting up on the structure:
▫ A flat base
allows to set it up on horizontal
surfaces
▫ Lateral
fixing parts to set it up on
vertical structures
A round
pipe dedicated to ensure the
positioning of the anchoring device
at the required height.
A small
stud’s head that can be adapted to
intermediate supports, to the
extremities of the lifeline, or to
the fixed anchor’s point.
The
singularity of this new small stud lies in
the fact that its head can be fixed by the
inside of the pipe. The setting up of the
small stud on the pipe does not require
any preparation of the latest any more (welding,
drilling). Then, the pipe can be declined
in various lengths, adjusted on site, and
covered with the head that contains a
non-shrinking aluminium ring for the
tightness. The reacting time for the
preparation of an order or for the
modification on site only corresponds to
the time spent in cutting the pipes.
Our teams are now equipped to adapt
the small stud height on site upon request
of our engineering department.
For the
setting up on steel roofing, our R&D
department preferred to keep a principle
of fixing on the carrier elements of the
structure (purling, truss…) and not
directly on the covering elements. Their
objective was to distribute the forces (in
case of a fall) on the building framing
rather than on the covering structure
which could get old and weak dangerously
depending on the building’s environment.