on Sunday 30 Aug 2015 I open the news and find not just one but two reports of people falling to their death. One is at a sports stadium in front of crowds of people. The other on a fire escape.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3215750/Turner-Field-spectator-dies-falling-upper-deck-Yankees-Braves-game.html
Google balcony safety and you will see lots of pictures. Here's one link to preventive devices.
http://www.arquigrafico.net/make-a-balcony-safe-for-children-with-transparent-balcony-safe-nets/
In Singapore I have lived in and visited several buildings with balconies. Most houses and blocks of flats have balconies, often two balconies, one at the front where you sit and look out. The other at the back for your drying rack for drying clothes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3215536/Youngest-actor-play-Les-Miserables-s-Jean-Valjean-Broadway-dies-age-21.html
I looked up the rules for designing fire escapes. Here they are
http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Stairs
The rules cover the height of the steps, the maximum and minimum number of steps, the length of flight of steps allowed, the number of handrails, preventing clothing getting caught on the end of the handrail etc.
For relief from all this bad news and serious stuff, look at my travel blog posts and books of comic poetry and my humorous short stories and novels.
Angela Lansbury, B A Hons, travel writer, author, speaker.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3215750/Turner-Field-spectator-dies-falling-upper-deck-Yankees-Braves-game.html
Google balcony safety and you will see lots of pictures. Here's one link to preventive devices.
http://www.arquigrafico.net/make-a-balcony-safe-for-children-with-transparent-balcony-safe-nets/
In Singapore I have lived in and visited several buildings with balconies. Most houses and blocks of flats have balconies, often two balconies, one at the front where you sit and look out. The other at the back for your drying rack for drying clothes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3215536/Youngest-actor-play-Les-Miserables-s-Jean-Valjean-Broadway-dies-age-21.html
I looked up the rules for designing fire escapes. Here they are
http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Stairs
The rules cover the height of the steps, the maximum and minimum number of steps, the length of flight of steps allowed, the number of handrails, preventing clothing getting caught on the end of the handrail etc.
For relief from all this bad news and serious stuff, look at my travel blog posts and books of comic poetry and my humorous short stories and novels.
Angela Lansbury, B A Hons, travel writer, author, speaker.
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