Rigid Lifelines™ Announces Winter 2011 Fall Protection Training

Rigid Lifelines™ is excited to announce Winter 2011 Training Classes being offered to SPANCO distributors. Training will provide SPANCO distributors with an opportunity to become certified in the sales, installation, and maintenance of Rigid Lifelines™ fall protection systems.

Training dates are available now:

Winter 2011 Dates

January 17-18 in Las Vegas, NV (coincides with the start of the World of Concrete show)
February 21-22 in Morgantown, PA (held at Rigid Lifelines headquarters)

Classes will be filled on a first come first serve basis. Training classes will be approximately 8 hours long and certification testing will be offered.

Training classes will cover the following:

Overview of fall protection
Benefits of rigid track
Rigid Lifelines product line
Identifying applications
Fall protection awareness
When OSHA rules are not good enough
Proper installation
Proper OSHA & ANSI requirements and inspection procedures

NOTE: Each training session will include one arrival/dinner date (Monday), as well as one training class date (Tuesday). There is only one full day of fall protection training and it is on Tuesday. For example, if you sign up for the January 17-18 dates, January 17 is the arrival date with a dinner, and January 18 is the full day of fall protection training.

Once you are signed up for a training date, you will receive an email confirmation from the marketing department. This confirmation will include information on hotel accomodations, directions, and times.

To learn more about fall protection training opportunities from Rigid Lifelines™, please contact Kristin Uhlig, Marketing Assistant & Event Coordinator for SPANCO, Inc. by emailing kuhlig@spanco.com.

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health and safety trainers
Mar 07, 2011
05:48 AM

After participating in the aerial lift webinar, there are two circumstances from my personal experience that I’d like to share. Unfortunately, each case ended with a fatality, so this reinforces the need for formal training. In the first situation, a city electrical utility boom truck had tied-off to a metal pole that was damaged. The plan was to attach a rope to it, remove the bolts that attached it to its base, and then lower it to the ground. When the last bolt was removed, the pole sprung from its base due to the excessive tension on the rope. The occupant was catapulted out of the basket. I’ll never forget being told that the victim was one of those workers who always told others to always wear their harness and lanyard…. The other situation happened when a maintenance man was steering a fully extended scissors lift outdoors on an asphalt pathway. His intent was to change a bulb in a light fixture. In his case, he was wearing a harness and lanyard per company policy. However, he failed to notice that one of the wheels was rolling off the edge of the pathway. This resulted in the equipment toppling to the frozen ground. His impact with the ground caused multiple internal injuries. When the incident was reported to a room full of supervisors, the safety coordinator was asked if the scissors lift operator had been trained to safely operate the lift. The maintenance manager spoke up and said, “No, but he had operated it safely for the last 9 years.” That was the wrong answer then and was also the wrong answer as far as the OSHA compliance officer was concerned.