The maintenance stairs at your workplace must meet OSHA requirements to ensure everyone’s safety. The stairs must be easy to climb up and down, plus they should be arranged to where there are no slipping or tripping hazards. Everything around your stairs should also be visible while handling enough weight. REDD Team can help you produce new OSHA maintenance stairs for your property.
Safer Than Scaffolding
You might find that scaffolds are sensible for maintenance steps, as you might not always need them. But scaffolding is dangerous, as it isn’t always OSHA-compliant, and it might wear out after being assembled and taken apart many times over or kept in storage for a while. It’s also hard to configure scaffolds to your liking. But OSHA maintenance stairs from REDD Team are easier to prepare based on your unique needs.
The aluminum materials in our stairs are sturdier than what you might find in a scaffold. Aluminum can handle more weight, plus it can resist various temperature shifts and environmental changes. You can trust the stairs we produce at REDD Team more than if you had something temporary.
How Are Your Steps Going To Be Built?
We will prepare your OSHA maintenance stairs based on OSHA safety standards. Here are a few points we can follow:
- The landing for each step must be at least 30 inches deep and 22 inches wide.
- All steps will be installed from 30 to 50 degrees from the horizontal level.
- The riser height between steps should be less than 9.5 inches.
- There should be a long enough landing at the top and bottom part of the stairs.
- For cases where maintenance stairs are near a door, the platform must be at least 20 inches away from the door’s swinging radius.
- The stairs should handle at least five times whatever weight you expect them to carry. That total should not be any less than 1,000 pounds.
- Rails are also necessary for your stairs. An unprotected side or edge of a stairway should have a guardrail at least 42 inches high. These rails must also handle at least 200 pounds of pressure.
Customization Works
You can trust us at REDD Team when you’re looking for maintenance stairs that can fit whatever equipment they will be built around. Let us know about the spaces you have for your stairs, and we’ll find a plan for work that fits your needs.
Your stairs can be customized based on the following:
- How high the stairs can reach
- The platforms you’ll use at the top and bottom, plus whatever rest platforms will appear midway through
- How you’ll arrange your handrails, including what you’ll do around the equipment the stairs will go near
- Anchors for the bottom, including whether you’ll need to dig anything to get the base ready
- Colors to make your stairs more visible; your stairs can include a standard yellow tone to make them easier to spot against your equipment
Ask our professionals at REDD Team to help you produce maintenance stairs for your business that meet OSHA standards. You’ll require the safest and sturdiest maintenance stairs for your regular projects, and we at REDD Team can prepare new stairs that work for you. You can learn more by calling us at (800) 648-3696 or visiting our website.
