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Access staircases are typically used in order to gain access to areas that cannot be safely reached by other means.  They are generally used in industry to provide access for workers to carry out repairs or maintenance or in order to undertake tasks that are part of a manufacturing process.  In most cases, access staircases will need to be individually fabricated in order to access a specific location within a factory or on a construction site. 

The Building Safety Group (BSG) has compiled a report using the results of more than 20,000 site inspections carried out during 2016 and determined that working at height is the most significant hazard, accounting for 19% of the 24,634 breaches of health and safety regulations.  These figures are in agreement with the latest Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics which show that falls from height remain the single biggest cause of fatalities on construction sites here in the UK.  Over the past five years, a fall from height has been responsible for 45% of fatalities on construction si