What is Grating Support And How Are There Beneficial To The Offshore Industry?

7 Jan
2022

What is Grating Support And How Are There Beneficial To The Offshore Industry?

Metal grating is an indispensable tool in a variety of industrial and commercial settings. It is an assembled grid with crossbars or crimp bars used to space and holds the bearing bars erect. Grating provides a surface but allows air, light, heat, sound, and water to pass through. It is strong, durable, and virtually maintenance-free.

In its most common applications, it helps keep workers and visitors in a facility safe, providing a stable flooring base and traction when walking at ground level and, especially, at heights. It can also serve as an effective safety barrier, helping to deter accidents that could harm staff, equipment, and the facility itself.

What Are the Benefits of stainless-steel grating support for Offshore Industry?

Metal grating can be deployed as everything from standard floor to walkway coverings. Besides safety and durability, it creates a unified aesthetic for the facility.  Overall, it can make a facility appear more cohesive. In this way, it provides a sense of continuity across all surfaces where the material is used. Prefabricated panels can be used in many circumstances where this type of grating meets the needs of the facility.

Stainless steel is broadly customizable, both in terms of the specific content of the alloy and the ways in which it can be manufactured. While there are recommendations and rules set by the International Organisation for Standardisation, many other elements of steel grating are easily changeable to align with specific design requirements and the layout of a facility. In factories, it provides workers with a safe, skid-proof surface on which to walk and operate machinery.

Last week, we assisted our client to install grating and grating support for the gap between the landing platforms. As the landing platforms are subjected to various loadings, helicopters landing on a floating vessel with changing vessel motion need complete safety measurements. Our team has ensured that we provide safe and quality services to our clients.