Imagine that on the first day at your new job, the foreman tosses you a harness and a 6-foot lanyard and says, “Be careful out there!” That may seem like an extreme example of a woefully inadequate fall protection training program, but I will bet dollars to donuts it happens more often than we think.
This article can serve as a roadmap for employers to identify and close gaps in their fall protection training programs so that any work-at-height can be done safely.