Did you know that more injuries occur from people falling off ladders than they do off a roof?
A fall from a ladder can be just as severe as a fall from the roof, sometimes worse!
Remember years ago when Molly Meldrum was putting up Christmas lights and fell from the ladder? He wasn’t even very high up when he fell and this left him in a critical state with a fractured skull, fractured ribs and a punctured lung that sent him straight to ICU.
So many people figure they will just DIY clean their gutters. Even though cleaning your gutters by hand with a bucket isn’t really all that efficient or effective, people think they are saving themselves a few hundred bucks, but what they are really doing is putting themselves and their family into real danger. What would happen to your family financially if you fell from the ladder and ended up in ICU for weeks if not months?
Ladders are so easy to lose your balance from. Many people using ladders don’t even follow simple ladder safety techniques such as working from a stable base and ensuring your ladder is secured to the property. They then reach too far, climb up or down too fast, don’t wear the correct footwear, try to carry too many items or balance them or they are simply distracted.
A lot of commercial operations from schools to commercial warehouses, have a 1 rung rule. That is, if you have to go up more than 1 rung on a ladder, then safety gear is required following a set of safety guidelines.
This is why so many commercial companies and organisations get us in to clean their gutters. They won’t risk the safety of their own staff because they know that need someone trained and insured to do the job and their jobs can be in the vicinity of thousands of dollars.
Is your health, you families financial stability, really worth you saving a few hundred dollars and risking it by doing it yourself?
Why not give us a call on 1300 654 253 for a free quote… maybe it won’t only mean your get your gutters cleaned, but it is also a pretty good insurance right?
