U shaped winder stairs safety/design problem

[sclarke0]

I have a tricky project where we have a u shaped winder staircase, but there is a new set of stairs (the bit with carpet) with sprawls off the corner of the main stairs creating almost T junction. The picture attached explain it. I am trying to figure out a way to make this safer, any ideas are welcome.

 

Thanks a lot

Stuart

[javatom]

Wow, that thing should be in the carpenter hack hall of fame.

[SH_Canada]

if you have space at the bottom of the stairs and enough headroom(or make the headroom), you could:

change the top winder to a landing. bring the bottom stairs straight out

[Joe_Carrick]

I would probably add an additional angled area to the top wider from the edge of the secondary stair to about 1/3 of the top winder.  Maybe even radius that filler so that it's tangent to both.