U.S. Industrial Supply, Inc.

Direct access to roofs and platforms by way of specially designed roof ladders is the surest and safest method of protecting the integrity and safe working practices of your business. By their nature, ladders made for roof and platform access are usually customized and made to order, except for the top section which includes the faring and guardrails.

Industrial access solutions aren’t just restricted to fixed caged roof ladders, however; the mother of invention is necessity, and over the years, access for industrial solutions has innovative, to say the least.

Industrial ladders are perhaps one of the first and oldest of access tools. Indeed, evidence found in archaeological digs in the United Kingdom and wider Europe point to their use in the latter stages of the Stone Age, commonly referred to as the Neolithic Era. Starting at around 10,000 years ago and lasting some 5,000 years, the transition of humankind from hunter-gatherers into farmers was a long haul, with many of the basic innovations in farming, mining, and tools being created and/or invented during this time; one of those tools was the ladder.

Very basic examples of ladders have been found in old flint mine workings, along with the tools the miners used in order to extract the flint from the motherlode. The entire collection of distinct and specialist array of tools used in the mining process collectively made the operation safer, more efficient, and profitable than previously.

Just as it is today, safety was of paramount importance for Neolithic people; indeed, losing the services of one person within a collective or settlement was probably more of a devastating blow then than it would be now. Not because it infers life is cheap now — but back then, with fewer people around, losing the manpower and skills of one person could result in the disintegration of an entire community.

Neolithic man and modern access solutions, then, have a basic connection: over the ages, where there is an access issue, an innovative solution waits to be discovered and invented. Just as Fixed Vertical Laddershave evolved for roofing access solutions, so, too, have industrial ladders, scissor lifts, and other forms of access. If your business has an access issue in need of a solution, Contact Us directly or call us Toll Free at (888) 722-0311.