Working at heights and measuring heights can be a costly excercise, hazardous and time consuming! Not anymore........
We all work at heights sometime in our daily life and we all need to measure, combining the two can be a risky business and expose ourselves to dangerous situations. Many work applications involve working at height. Working from ladders, scaffolds and platforms are some of the obvious examples, but there are many more activities where people are required to work at height. Examples include working on roofs and over tanks, pits and structures. Another factor to take into consideration is that setting up a suitable safety platform is not only costly, but involves many people and takes time.
Falls from height are responsible for many serious and fatal injuries every year. If you fall from a height above two metres, the likelihood is that you could sustain a serious injury.
With the appropriate Leica DISTO™ you can measure heights directly, indirectly, using Pythagoras or with inclination sensors and using angles to determine the measurement. The Leica DISTO™ is a sophisticated measuring device that uses the laser to take the measurement. The laser dot is sent to its target 200 million times a second on and off like a wave lapping against a shore.The pulses of the wave are measured which gives an accuracy of ±1.0mm depending on the unit purchased. With distances up to 200 metres the Leica DISTO™ allows you to measure heights, widths and angles at the touch of a button, safely and efficiently.
Choosing the right device is key to the measurements that you carry out. If you are purely working inside the Leica DISTO™ D2 or D3 are your perfect companions. If you are working outside then your biggest problem is viewing the laser dot in bright conditions or against non reflective surfaces. The Leica DISTO™ A5 has a magnification lens integrated into the device, looking through the lens allows you to see the dot between the cross hairs. The A6 has the same function but allows you to also transfer your measurements by Bluetooth to a laptop or PDA incorporated within excel, word, Autocad or a third party specialist software programme developed by software partners. The best option and the newest solution is the Leica DISTO™ D5 with its integrated colour pointfinder, showing you the actual image on the screen.
Working and measuring at heights need not be a massive safety issue if you choose the right product for the application. The Leica DISTO™ range of laser measuring devices will certainly cut the risk of potential dangerous situations and help protect you or your employees in a professional, efficient, time and cost saving way.
If you have not tried the Leica DISTO™ range of devices then choose the original laser distance meter and ask us for a FREE 30 day trial to see how these devices will help you in your working environment.
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