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Incorporated By Reference: Understanding OSHA and National Consensus Standards
The General Duty Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act [OSH Act §5(a)(1)] requires employers to “furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees.” Many people are familiar…
Read MoreChoosing the Right SRL for your Fall Protection System and Application
SRLs, or self-retracting lifelines, are a crucial part of any fall protection system. SRLs connect workers to their anchor point and arrest falls with a built-in braking system. Every fall protection application is different, so it is important to know how to choose the right SRL for your specific application. It’s worth noting that Rigid Lifelines…
Read MoreCondition, Not Time, Determines When to Replace Your Personal Fall Protection Equipment
A common question in the fall protection industry is about life spans for personal fall protection equipment and if the equipment should be replaced every five years. As with many topics, there’s the short answer, and the more accurate, longer one. The short answer is no, you do not have to replace your equipment five…
Read MoreBenefits of Dual Track Rigid Rail Systems
The fall protection industry is growing rapidly. Safety mangers throughout the country are recognizing the need for fall protection in many fields, such as aviation, construction, manufacturing, and transportation, to name a few. With so many fall protection products flooding the market, how can you know which fall protection system is right for your facility?…
Read MoreFall Protection Is Not Just for People
Worker fall protection is a serious issue within the safety industry. In this day and age, most companies are aware that they must provide their workers with proper fall protection when working at height to comply with OSHA and ANSI regulations. However, the same consideration must extend to the tools their workers are using. This…
Read MoreStainless Steel vs. Galvanized Steel
This blog was originally posted on 7/20/17 and rewritten on 3/6/24. Whether constructing high-rise buildings, working in manufacturing facilities, unloading grains, or repairing railcars, fall protection systems are essential to ensure a safer working environment. However, when these systems aren’t manufactured with high-grade materials, they can be vulnerable to nature’s elements and compromise worker safety. That’s why galvanized…
Read MoreFall Protection Industry Solutions for Trucking and Transportation
Trucking applications typically require fall protection because of the overall height of the vehicles. The average height of an eighteen-wheeler, for instance, is nearly 14 feet. This height far exceeds OSHA’s four-foot height requirement for fall protection in general industry. Tanker trucks, flatbeds, platforms, semi-trailers, buses, garbage trucks, and fire trucks will (generally) require fall…
Read MoreVisual Literacy in Health and Safety
According to the Campbell Institute at the National Safety Council, at any point we are seeing only ten percent of what we perceive. You may think you are seeing the world accurately, but research shows that we are only capable of seeing approximately ten percent of that reality. Why? Because our brain works in fractions,…
Read MoreDoes Behavior-Based Safety Still Apply?
Behavior-based safety (BBS) has been a large part of Environmental Health and Safety since the early 1980’s. Today, it’s become a contentious topic for some people, depending on which side of the debate you stand. BBS was designed to apply the science of behavioral change to safety. It’s a process that is supposed to create…
Read MoreAsk Rigid Lifelines: C-Clamps as an Anchorage in Fall Protection
QUESTION: Can we use a C-clamp as an anchorage on a fall protection travel restraint system? ANSWER: The answer to this question is a resounding NO. C-clamps should never be used for fall protection. In fact, they’re actually referred to as the “widow maker” in the field. Here’s why: C-clamps are designed to hold two things…
Read MoreFall Protection: Coping with Complainers
If you work in an industry that requires the use of fall protection, you are probably familiar with workplace complainers who just don’t want to wear their personal protective or fall protection equipment. We can provide dozens of reasons why every worker at height should wear his or her fall protection, yet countless workers still…
Read MoreWhat is a Fall Hazard Survey Report?
Before preparing and implementing fall protection procedures, it’s essential to perform a fall hazard survey for every workplace activity where workers are exposed to a fall hazard. Once you have identified potential fall hazards, the next step is to develop a fall hazard survey report. The point of this report is to identify methods to…
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