OSHA has again cited a North Florida roofing contractor for failing to protect its workers from the risks of dangerous falls and other hazards at two St. Augustine work sites.
New Honeywell Miller® TurboLite™ Edge Personal Fall Limiters are designed to protect workers in situations that involve an edge and require a foot-level tie-off
July 28, 2017
A new line of personal fall limiters (PFLs) now available from Honeywell is designed to prevent a severed lifeline and to protect a worker in the event of a fall, which could lead to severe injuries or death for construction workers and others working at height.
MSA's V-TEC Self-Retracting Lifeline (SRL) is the newest offering in MSA's range of fall protection product solutions.
The V-TEC SRL incorporates spring radial technology, the newest method of energy-absorption to be used in self-retracting devices within the personal protective equipment industry.
It's easy to think that a slip or fall won't happen to you, your employees or your loved ones. But the statistics aren't favorable to anyone. That's why we echo OSHA's recent improvements to the "Walking and Working Surface Rule" and call for increased prevention of slip, trip, and fall injuries.
Trade in old equipment for industry-leading 3M Fall Protection equipment plus cash rebates
June 29, 2017
For safety professionals, keeping workers safe means providing them with effective, dependable equipment while staying compliant with changing safety standards and regulations. For workers at height, 3M™ Fall Protection designs safety equipment to meet the strictest industry standards, as is the case with its DBI-SALA® and Protecta® fall protection products.
ANSI (United States) and CSA (Canada) standards have, for almost four decades, provided best practices for safe, reliable access to work at height and have delivered a consistent benchmark for safe machine design in North America.
To help reduce same-level slip, trip and fall incidents, OSHA recently a provision to the walking-working surface rules for facilities to conduct regular inspections of all walking-working surfaces. This, coupled with the new requirement to fix any hazards that are found will help prevent slip, trip and fall incidents.
Petzl will showcase innovative, ANSI-compliant Y-lanyard, harness and helmet at ASSE Safety 2017 Exposition, June 19-21 in Denver, Colorado.
“Petzl is committed to providing ‘solution-based’ products and solutions for work-at-height professionals,” said Michel Goulet, professional division manager for Petzl America.
3M Personal Safety Division will showcase its latest innovations in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), booth #1005, in Denver beginning Monday, June 19. In addition to the debut of new products and services, 3M will also address OSHA’s final rule to update general industry walking-working surfaces and fall protection standards with presentations and demonstrations.