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Self-Closing Industrial Safety Gates

EDGE Fall Protecon, LLC, focuses on providing simple and effecve fall protecon soluons for workers at heights. Our soluons seek to increase worker safety, diminish employer risk, enhance accessibility, and maintain flow of material and personnel. We connue to develop products and methods of implementaon that are simple, effecve, and, most importantly, migate risk so everyone can safely go home at the end of the workday

Access openings are some of the most dangerous locaons for personnel working at heights. Le unguarded, they expose workers to risks that can lead to serious injury, or even death. Luckily, many of these access points can be quickly and easily protected using an EDGE selfclosing industrial safety gates provided by EDGE Fall Protecon, LLC.

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Advantages of the EDGE Self-Closing Industrial Safety Gate Construcon

Everything at EDGE Fall Protecon, LLC, starts with material quality. All our products, including our EDGE safety gates are constructed of high quality material that is sourced and manufactured in the USA. With opons including powder coated safety yellow mild steel, hot-dipped galvanized mild steel, aluminum, 304 stainless steel, or 316 stainless steel safety gates, we have the right type of material to suit any need whether it be general industry or an extremely corrosive environment.

The self-closing feature of the EDGE SelfClosing Safety Gate is one of the most important aspects to our safety gate. This ensures that, aer every use, our gate shuts in place to eliminate the hazard. Unlike placing a chain over an access point that can be forgoen to be put back in place, our durable stainless-steel springs shut the gate every me.

Installaon

Providing a safe work environment can somemes be difficult and me intensive. The EDGE Self-Closing Safety Gate was designed with simplicity and effecveness in mind. Our gate quickly mounts to 2” round pipe or 1.5” x 1.5” square tubing via U-bolts or can be mounted directly to flat iron, angle iron, or wall mounted with fasteners. This allows for standardizaon across facilies or job sites, and installaon mes of just 20 minutes.

Tesng

EDGE Fall Protecon, LLC, only provides products that meet certain tesng requirements. Every product we manufacture will meet or exceed OSHA (Occupaonal Safety and Health Administraon) requirements requiring a concentrated load test of 200 pounds (90.7 Kilograms). In addion, all guardrail systems and self-closing safety gates have a top rail at 42 inches (106 cm) and a mid-rail at 21” (53 cm) from the working surface.

Duty to Protect

While every individual must be responsible for his or her own safety, it is the employer's responsibility to ensure that they create a workplace that allows employees to complete their work in the safest and most effecve manner possible. Simple and costeffecve soluons to safety exist all over the workplace, and the EDGE Self-Closing Industrial Safety gate is one such soluon to protect the most valuable asset on the jobsite, the employee.

For more informaon on our EDGE SelfClosing Industrial Safety Gate, Guardrail systems, or any other custom soluon, please visit us at our website or send us an e-mail: www.EDGEfallprotecon.com

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