With linemen no longer able to free-climb, electric utilities nationwide have invested in new fall protection equipment for wood poles, modified work practices, and designed and retrofitted towers to ...

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 ...

These are some exciting times in the world of work at height. Modern fall protection equipment and systems allow workers to perform their jobs with more mobility, greater comfort, and most importantly ...

EDGE Fall Protection is expanding its products and services to improve safety for workers in high-risk environments. Known for their wide range of OSHA approved safety products, EDGE Fall Protection ...

Guardian Fall Protection's lineup of three new self-retracting lifelines (SRLs) include the GR11, GR6 and GR6 Tie-Back. All three models meet OSHA standards, exceed ANSI standards and will be ...

With recent and forthcoming changes to the ANSI Z359 fall protection code, the landscape of the fall protection industry is changing. Although OSHA still sets and enforces the law regarding fall ...

Despite special emphasis programs from OSHA and increasingly sophisticated fall protection equipment, falls from heights remain a serious occupational safety challenge. In 2006, the Bureau of Labor ...