The Story Behind the Over Skylight Human Arrest System
A roofer fell thirty feet through an unprotected skylight while retrieving a tool he set on the skylight for safe keeping. A worker on a commercial roof sat down on a skylight during a lunch break and fell through. A visitor on a commercial roofing job site tour stepped up onto a skylight for a better photograph of the job.
These are the kinds of incidents that originally sent our founders searching for a foolproof, easily deployable fall prevention system to put a physical barrier between a worker and a drop. But the more they looked at what was available, the clearer it became that the industry had not solved this problem. They found mere visual warnings: cones, caution tape, and the dangerous expectation that experienced workers would give skylights a wide berth.
On the other end of the spectrum were heavy, cumbersome metal erector-set options that were difficult to load, install, and move. There was simply nothing reasonably priced, simple enough to deploy on every job, and foolproof enough to protect anyone on the roof that day. Because the right solution didn't exist, they decided to build it themselves.
What they built was the Over-Skylight Human Arrest System: a high-visibility, UV-stabile mesh webbing net, sized perfectly for standard 4'x8' commercial skylights. Designed to be installed in under two minutes, it features a serialized QR code used to log inspections and track deployments from a simple phone app. Finally, the industry has the foolproof, affordable, and easily deployable solution it has been missing.
