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 ...
Falls account for four of the top 10 OSHA Citations and Fall Protection – General Requirements remain top of the list for the 14 th year in a row. We’ve prepared this brief to help you better ...
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) standards addressing fall protection, the new ANSI/ASSE Z359.14-2012, Safety Requirements ...
A new ANSI standard will do away with “leading-edge,” or LE, designations on new self-retracting fall-arrest equipment and make the choice of types of gear more straightforward beginning August 1, ...
In a Letter of Interpretation dated Jan. 14, 2009, posted to the OSHA Web site Feb. 10, OSHA's Directorate of Construction Acting Director Noah Connell noted that some shock-absorbing lanyards are ...
During the Scaffold & Access Industry Association’s Committee Week in May, the Fall Protection Council covered major changes coming in 2023 for self-retracting devices. Becky Danielson, Chair of the ...
OSHA requires that fall protection be provided at elevations of four feet in general industry workplaces, five feet in shipyards, six feet in the construction industry and eight feet in longshoring ...
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