Falls from heights remain among the leading causes of workplace injuries and fatalities, and fall protection violations are the most commonly cited by OSHA across all industries. Although many people ...

During risk assessments, safety managers always should consider how working at heights can be avoided. However, this may not be possible. In such cases, collective protective equipment (CPE) and ...

A well-designed full body harness will disperse any remaining energy in a safe manner to the strong and durable areas of the body. Today’s fall protection equipment user understands the need to use a ...

Largely, the standards most applicable for fall protection in the U.S. have had minimal performance changes over the past 5 years. The most current is the new ANSI/ASSP Z359.14-2021 document that ...

The Nano-Lok edge personal self-retracting lifeline (SRL) is engineered for both foot level tie-off and sharp edge applications. Can be safely used in fall clearance environments as low as 16 ft.

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- Fall protection can be defined as a system or means to prevent or reduce the severity of injuries from a fall. Often, when we think of fall protection, we think of someone ...

Upper Great Plains lineman Shayne Bender demonstrates how to use a buck hook with a self-retracting lanyard to ascend a steel lattice tower at fall protection training in Mead substation. When the ...