These systems are designed to stop a fall — not to prevent it. Most of the requirements here apply to the equipment itself. The employer needs to ensure that equipment purchased for personal fall ...

What is the first thing that you think about when you see the words “fall protection?” Do you think of a harness? Guard rails? Or perhaps you think of OSHA violations and worker’s compensation cases.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 335 construction workers died from job-related falls in 1995. That was the year the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) "Safety ...

It is the responsibility of the RIT Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Department to help ensure the safety of employees working from heights of four feet or greater. RIT EH&S will review these ...

In early 2006, the Colorado Springs Utilities' (SU; Colorado Springs, Colorado) safety and health department reviewed a new fall-protection mast for the top of the 112 transformers in its substation ...

General Industry Fall Safety Standards: While construction codes govern activities during the erection or renovation of a structure, General Industry codes extend to ongoing maintenance and operation.

Doka – a world leader in formwork technology – announces a new mobile personal fall-arrest system, The Falpro - Mobile Fall Protection Anchor V1. Current safety regulations in slab-formwork ...