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Fall Protection: Confined Spaces Defined
Confined spaces can pose a variety of hazards for people working in General Industry and the Construction Industry. For the purposes of this blog, we will be examining the different elements of confined spaces and how to offer protection for workers in those areas. Under OSHA 1926.501(b) criteria for construction industries states that any construction…
Read MoreHow Do I Test My Rigid Track Fall Arrest Equipment?
Load testing has its place in an industrial facility. Load tests are important and necessary in the realms of material handling cranes. However, when it comes to fall protection, you don’t actually need to perform a drop test on the system (OSHA and ANSI Z359 have said so). As long as the system has been…
Read MoreHow to Reduce Swing Falls
Conducting an elevated worksite hazard assessment allows you to rule out passive fall protection options for your workers. Once you have determined that you need to use an active fall protection system, it’s important to consider the following things in order to avoid swing falls. Your active fall protection system must be able to reach…
Read MoreFall Protection: What to Do and What Not to Do
Whether you are the owner of a construction company, the foreman at a jobsite, or the safety manager on a factory floor, you all share a common concern about employee safety while performing tasks in the workplace. Worker safety is especially important when anyone is performing tasks at elevation. If you know that your employees…
Read MoreFall Protection, Bad Weather, and Avoiding Failure
As with all feats of engineering, there are always a variety of different things that need to be considered during the design process. Our engineers use a variety of calculations to ensure that the desired system is best suited to the weather patterns of the installation location. One of the best features of the enclosed…
Read MoreAre you Authorized to Rescue? ANSI Z359 Standard Knows Best…
As the number of workplace falls increase for industrial and construction facilities, more and more employers are beginning to install fall protection systems. It’s wonderful that employers are taking the time to consider the safety of their employees, but it is important for everyone to consider all elements of the fall protection system before workers…
Read MoreFall Protection for Icy Conditions
Working at height has a special set of challenges associated with it. To complicate a dangerous situation further, when workers need to perform tasks at height during winter weather, there are even more opportunities for danger. If workers are tying off to a cable system such as a flexible horizontal lifeline, they are much more…
Read MoreHow does gravity and acceleration impact fall protection?
Gravity is an acceleration force that draws two masses together. Because this gravitational acceleration is such an influential force, it is only logical that there are certain circumstances that either increase or decrease the amount of acceleration or “G-forces” imposed upon a human. Many physicists have devoted (and sometimes risked) their lives to study the…
Read MoreANSI Requirements for Self-Rescue Descent Devices
The requirements for a self-rescue descent device are outlined in ANSI Z359.4-2007, section 3.2.7. This section covers all of the information about how to make sure that your descent device is compliant with ANSI requirements. Section 3.2.7 covers five different topics about fall protection that include: descent energy and capacity, descent speed, static strength, dynamic…
Read MorePhysical Science: Kinetic Energy
Energy is something that can be neither created, nor destroyed. Since the energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only move from one form to another form. Kinetic energy is one of the nine different forms of energy. It is the energy that is created from movement. Another form of energy, known as potential…
Read MoreHow to Write a Hazard Assessment as Per the Fall Protection Code
Writing a fall rescue plan can be a scary task for some employers. But fear not! These plans are easy to make thanks to this blog and the ASSE Fall Protection Code. For reference purposes, the fall hazard survey report requirements can be found in section 4.2 in ANSI/ASSE Z359.2-2007 of the Fall Protection Code.…
Read MoreNot Having Fall Protection Can Really Cost You
It seems to be part of the human condition that people will simply avoid dealing with a problem until they are forced (typically by external factors) to deal with it. When it comes to dealing with the safety of an employee in a potentially hazardous working environment, it is concerning to see that most managers…
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