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  • FEB
    3

    HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE INSPECTION OF YOUR FALL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT?

    No fall protection program is complete without a practical system for tracking the inspection, maintenance, retirement, and replacement of fall protection equipment. Because fall protection gear provides a life-saving function and is subject to the stresses and fatigue of use, it must be inspected regularly. The way in which you track these inspections is equally important. Keeping a piece of equipment in service beyond its suggested working life, or after it has experienced significant wear, damage, or fatigue can put workers at risk for fall-related injuries or death.

  • JAN
    31

    HOT OFF THE PRESS: OUR NEW PRODUCT BROCHURES ARE IN!

    Our new product brochures are in! We now have new single page sell sheets for all Rigid Lifelines™ products. With these brochures, our dealers will be able to focus on the relevant fall protection needs of different industries, and provide more customized product information to each of our customers

  • JAN
    27

    MEET TERRI LARKIN, RIGID LIFELINES SHIPPING CLERK

    Terri Larkin joined the shipping department of SPANCO and Rigid Lifelines™ in 2008. She and brings with her a wealth of experience in working with people—both in the restaurant business and as a representative of a leading juvenile play and safety products company. Ensuring that SPANCO and Rigid Lifelines™ products reach the customer safely and promptly is a challenging job, but one that Terri enjoys.

  • JAN
    20

    FALL PROTECTION IS MORE THAN EQUIPMENT, IT’S A CULTURE

    Back in 1891, Thomas Lynch is said to have coined the phrase “Safety First” in an attempt to increase awareness of workplace hazards and to reduce the number deaths and injuries in Pennsylvania’s thriving coal mining industry. Since then, the phrase has become standard in a wide range of industrial settings, including manufacturing, construction, utility work, railroading, and trucking.

  • JAN
    20

    RIGID LIFELINES™ ANNOUNCES FEBRUARY 2012 FALL PROTECTION TRAINING

    Rigid Lifelines™ is excited to announce a February 2012 Training Class being offered to SPANCO distributors. Training will provide distributors with an opportunity to become certified in the sales, installation, and maintenance of Rigid Lifelines™ fall protection systems.

  • JAN
    13

    THE TOP 5 INDUSTRIES WHERE MOST FALLS OCCUR

    Detailed data on falls in the workplace are maintained and analyzed by several organizations, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Because there are so many ways to group and analyze workplace injuries and data, determining which industries incur the highest rates of work-related falls is more complex than a simple incident count.

  • JAN
    11

    WEARING AND USING FALL ARREST EQUIPMENT ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS

    Unfortunately, we hear more times than not after a serious if not fatal fall, “I do not know why the worker was not hooked up, he (she) was wearing a harness.” Every day workers are assigned numerous job tasks that require them to work at elevation along unprotected leading edges. Each job task requires a certain amount of worker mobility, both horizontally and vertically.

  • JAN
    6

    STATE OSHA PROGRAMS, ESTABLISHMENT AND ADVANTAGES

    Almost everyone has heard of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970, but what you may not know is that Section 18 of the Act encourages states to develop their own programs to promote safety in the workplace. State plans must be approved and monitored by OSHA at the federal level, and the program provides up to 50% of the operating costs for each approved state plan. Currently 20 states and 2 U.S. territories (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) have their own OSH plan maintained in this way, with federal approval. The states are listed below:

  • JAN
    3

    WHAT’S NEW IN THE ANSI Z359 FALL PROTECTION CODE - PART 5

    As we have reviewed in “What’s New” parts 1 through 4, there are many new standards as of December 2011 in the Z359 Fall Protection Code. In this installment, we will review the recent release of Z359.13. This is the most significant new standard to come along in a while as the Energy Absorbing Lanyard, or “Rip Stitch” lanyard, is the most commonly used and ubiquitous piece of fall protection besides the harness.

  • DEC
    29

    RIGID LIFELINES™ ANNOUNCES WINTER 2012 TRADE SHOW SCHEDULE

    Rigid Lifelines™ is proud to announce plans to exhibit at the following trade shows during the winter months of 2012...

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