Fall Protection Forum

There are many safety regulations concerning fall prevention, including standards for fall protection systems, safety for workers at height, and more. OSHA 1910, OSHA 1926, and ANSI Z359 cover broad topics of fall prevention, and there are many specific standards within those regulations. These regulations define actions and steps employers…

Many of our blogs focus on ways to eliminate hazards, prevent workplace…

Swing Falls are one of the most dangerous, and sometimes fatal, events…

An effective safety committee is an important part of developing and maintaining a successful safety program. Unfortunately, companies sometimes have disorganized or unfocused safety committees, which can lead to poor safety results. So what can safety professionals do to fix an ineffective committee? The Problem The first thing to do…

SRLs, or self-retracting lifelines, are a crucial part of any fall protection system….

Anyone who needs to access grain bins and storage silos should have an overhead fall protection system in place. Grain bins are hazardous because of how they are operated and inspected. Between filling, emptying, and inspecting the materials inside of a storage silo, there are many dangers that await people…

All of the information in this blog is in reference to ANSI Z359.4-2007 “Safety Requirements for Assisted-Rescue and Self-Rescue Systems, Sub-Systems, and Components.”  The requirements for fall protection and fall arrest devices are a little different than rescue devices. Overall, this can be attributed to the tasks that the equipment…

The earliest recorded fall protection tests occurred in Sweden and the United Kingdom around the time of WWII (mid to late 1940s). These tests were performed for aviation purposes in order to determine the different ways that the human body was affected by negative acceleration (or deceleration) forces. Scientists wanted…

Maximum Arresting Force is one of those epic fall protection terms. I say it’s epic because it plays an important role in the safety of anyone who uses a fall protection system or device. Those words also appear on the label of all Rigid Lifelines fall protection systems (and if…