The revision of ANSI/ASSE Z359.1 recently received final ANSI administrative approval, with an effective date of Aug. 14, 2017.
Since the last revision of Z359.1 in 2007, many new voluntary consensus standards have been developed within the Z359 series to cover various specific types of fall protection products and processes. Some manufacturers chose not to follow the equipment specific standards, yet claimed compliance with the most current version of Z359.1. At the time, those statements were true by virtue of the fact that Z359.1 did not specifically address the elements covered by the other 11 standards in the Z359 family.