Safety is a conscious practice to avoid accidents, while
working with tools, building materials and around other individuals. The
picture below provides you with a stairway safety rail that I built for
other construction workers. Remember the old saying, "Safety First,"
well it makes a lot of sense, in the construction business.
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Stair Framing Safety Rails
The first thing you need to do after you have built your rough stairway
is to build a stair framing safety rail. This will provide additional
safety to anyone who uses the stairs while working on the project.
You need to securely fasten a temporary hand rail system around the
perimeter of any stairway that is going to be operational. This stairway
should be strong enough to prevent someone from falling through it and
tall enough to prevent someone from falling over it.
Here's a few things to think about, before you build your safety
handrail.
1. Can you still move building materials up the stairway safely? This
could be a problem for workers carrying large sheets of plywood, drywall
or other long objects, up and down the stairs.
2. Is it in anyone else's way? I always try to build these temporary
handrails with other building trades in mind. I usually keep them a
certain distance away from the walls so that the drywaller's or
plasterers don't need to remove them, while they're working.
3. Make sure that they are at least 42 inches tall. This measurement
would be from the tip of the stair tread nosing and the bottom of
landings or floors.
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