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Blog Post #135 – Fall Protection – Section 26.3 of the Construction Regulation 213/91- Seventh in Series

Section 26.3, subsection 8 states,

“The following additional requirements apply to a guardrail system that is made of wire rope:

1) The top rail and intermediate rail shall be made of wire rope that is at least 10 mm in diameter, and the rope shall be kept taut by a turnbuckle or other device.
2) The outward deflection of the top rail and the intermediate rail resulting from the loads specified in subsection (5) shall not exceed beyond the edge of a work surface.
3) The system shall have vertical separators at intervals of not more than 2.4 metres and horizontal supports at intervals or not more than 9 metres.

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