Safety system and method of use for high workers

Abstract

A pair of flat plates are joined by a hinge and fastened at the peak of a roof so that an eye bolt attached to one of the plates is positioned outward of the roof. A safety cable is engaged with the eye bolt and may be fastened to a worker harness. A second pair of flat plates, also having eye bolts are fastened on either side of the hinged pair and spaced apart. A walker cable is fastened between the second pair of flat plates. The safety cable may be fastened to the walking cable instead of the worker harness, and in this case, a personnel cable may be slidingly engaged with the walking cable and to the worker harness so as to provide safety to a worker while permitting the worker to move about while working on a scaffold.

1 . A safety apparatus comprising: a pair of flat plates joined by a hinge, the flat plates each providing a plurality of mounting holes, and at least one of the pair of the flat plates providing an eye bolt rigidly engaged therewith and to one side thereof; and a safety cable engaged at one end thereof with the eye bolt; the other end of the safety cable providing a hook for fastening the safety cable.  
   
   
       2 . The apparatus of  claim 1  further comprising a pair of flat plates, each of the flat plates providing an eye bolt rigidly engaged to one side thereof, and a plurality of mounting holes; a walker cable engaged at ends thereof with the eye bolts; the safety cable engaged with one of the walker cable and a worker harness; a personnel cable providing sliding engagement at one end thereof with the walker cable and joined at the other end to a worker harness.  
   
   
       3 . A safety method comprising: joining a pair of flat plates by a hinge, the flat plates each providing a plurality of mounting holes, and at least one of the pair of the flat plates providing an eye bolt rigidly engaged therewith and to one side thereof, fastening the flat plates over a peak of a roof and attaching a safety cable with the eye bolt; fastening a further pair of flat plates to the roof in spaced apart positions on opposing sides of the pair of hinged flat plates, engaging a walker cable at ends thereof with further eye bolts in the spaced apart further flat plates; fastening the safety cable to one of the walker cable and a worker harness; providing sliding engagement of a personnel cable at one end thereof with the walker cable and fixing the other end to the worker harness.