Safety Steps & Platform Ladders

Safety Steps & Platform Ladders

Warehouse and industrial mobile safety steps

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The Workplace Depot can help you keep your employees productive, safe and efficient by supplying you with commercial and industrial products to suit your workplace. You will find a range of mobile safety steps in this section to suit your industrial warehouse, factory or supermarket storage facility. These products can help employees working in warehouses to reach high storage shelves and racking easily without causing injury to themselves or others. Keeping your workforce and premises safe from hazards is a priority for any business. If you can provide your workforce with the right equipment to keep them safe you will have a productive and efficient business.

Our platform ladder range includes foot lock functions, easy slopes plus many are suitable for narrow aisles and portable and plastic solutions too. The stainless steel mobile platform steps are made with a fully steel welded framework and are built with anti-slip tread surfaces resistant to water, oil and most chemicals. These products are easy to clean and hygienic and are built with spring loaded castors. The foot lock feature has a simple foot lock operation to mobilise and immobilise the steps. Most of our mobile range is fitted with handrails on either side of the steps to make it the optimum unit in comparison to a traditional ladder.

What is the purpose of the series mobile safety steps?

Safety steps and platform ladders are a prerequisite in most commercial, industrial and government facilities and buildings when there is a need for manual elevation for any purpose. Private businesses also use such mobile steps in an attempt to adhere to safety laws for the benefit of their employees. This product is a versatile range of mobile platform safety steps that are extremely useful in preserving that element of safety at work. Available in a wide range of models ranging from 3-tread to 16-tread units, the platform ladders and mobile safety steps should be a standard piece of equipment in every location where there is a need for people to, well, move up a notch or sixteen.

Where can the mobile safety steps be used?

This versatile and sturdy range of products can be used in most locations where there is a need to conduct work at a level higher than the average height of a person. Mobile steps are an essential component of every robust ‘safety at work’ programme, and are found in warehouses, stock rooms, inspection bays, aircraft hangars, airport terminals, factories, industrial buildings and nearly everywhere there is a need for employees to ‘step up and do the job,’ as it were. Many locations with high ceilings are designed this way in order to maximise space, and when this is the case, these safety steps are invariably required for one purpose or other.

Who might use these platform ladders and mobile steps?

Safety officers are sure to be the first ones to grab this platform ladder and make it a part of their essential safety equipment. It is required by law, so nobody who needs it can justifiably do without it. Stock specialists (not the Wall Street kind), safety engineers, maintenance teams and many other categories of workers will find mobile steps an invaluable addition to their ‘essential equipment’ list. In fact, anyone who wants to ‘get high’ safely and legally is a perfect candidate for this product. With a maximum platform step height of 4064mm – or more than 13 feet – this product can be used in most high-ceiling locations by anyone who is responsible for the safety and well-being of employees.

Mobile Safety Steps: product specifications- warranties, materials, legislation, etc.

Our mobile step range offers a wide choice of solutions: from the 3-tread safety steps with a platform height of 1676mm to the gargantuan 16-tread sturdy unit that offers a maximum elevation of 4064mm, or 13.33 feet. Punched steel treads make for a sure grip on these non-slip surfaces, and a welded tubular steel construct ensures maximum strength. Two wheels and two feet give the ideal blend of stability and mobility. Standard treads of 559mm width or extra-wide treads of 762mm each. The Workplace Depot offers a standard one year warranty on all parts and labour. Our mobile safety steps and platform ladders fully comply with all local council and government regulative manufacturing requirements to ensure the safety of your customers and staff.

Interesting facts about safety steps

Aircraft safety steps are more elaborate versions of their commercial and industrial cousins, but essentially have the same features. However, safety features on mobile aircraft steps are usually enhanced to a level that makes them usable by anyone – just like ordinary stairs. This is done because users of aircraft steps may not be trained in safety practices, as industrial workers invariably are. But, it is still dangerous to treat these like regular stairs, which is why airlines always have one person standing at the top and one at the bottom of the steps at all times when the steps are in use by passengers.