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, ...
A quick-acting braking system that arrests falls within inches, not feet, has safety managers retiring their shock-absorbing lanyards in favor of a new generation of compact, lightweight personal fall ...
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 ...