Patent ID: 7571898

Claim:
A modular safety rail assembly, comprising: plural base connectors for supporting vertical posts of a safety rail and to which horizontally extending rail members are connected; plural spacer members extending substantially horizontally from the plural base connectors; and at least one counter-balance weight secured to a distal end of each of said plural spacer members remote from said plural base connectors, said counter-balance weight comprising substantially only a solid body which defines a substantially planar major surface which, in use, is intended to rest on a support surface, said body defining a through-bore for receiving an end of one of said spacer members, said through-bore extending continuously through the body in a direction substantially parallel with said substantially planar major surface of the body, said through-bore extending between a pair of end faces which, at least in part, are non-parallel end faces and said body further defining a screw-threaded aperture which extends through the body to intersect and communicate with said through-bore.