Dr. Nigel Ellis will present on "American worker handhold fall arrest at heights using Three Point Control." This presentation is based on 10 years of work and a Ph.D. thesis by Justin Young, University of Michigan (now Dr. Young is at Kettering University MI). The results, says Dr. Ellis, “are surprising and question current OSHA trigger heights.”
Last year, OSHA Director of Construction Jim Maddux delivered a presentation on OSHA’s new campaign to prevent fatal falls at the annual conference of the American Society of Safety Engineers. When he finished, one of the conference leaders rushed over, eager to introduce Maddux to representatives from another agency with a similar mission of stopping falls in construction: Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, poorly maintained floors are responsible for more than two million fall injuries each year*, resulting in billions of dollars in medical, insurance and litigation costs. But, many of these injuries can be prevented.
Because slip-and-fall accidents are of heightened concern today, safety professionals must take added measures to ensure that the floors they maintain are safe and slip-resistant. However, sometimes it is difficult to figure out exactly why a floor may be slippery.
Question: At what distance from an unprotected side or edge does a worker, performing steel erection activities under 29 CFR 1926 Subpart R with a fall hazard greater than 15 feet, be required to have fall protection?
The Scaffold Training Institute's (STI) programs have been used to train over 250,000 workers around the world since 1991. STI provides both direct training by our instructors, and Train The Trainer programs to certify attendees to conduct training using STI materials. Train The Trainers are authorized to conduct scaffold training when using and following the STI protocol.
Lightweight, patent-pending Miller Twin Turbo™ G2 Connector provides 100% tie-off for the Miller TurboLite™ and Miller Turbo T-BAK™ Personal Fall Limiters (PFLs)
July 1, 2013
Honeywell Safety Products launches the next generation of Miller Twin Turbo™ Systems, now with the new G2 Connector for 100 percent tie-off. The patent-pending design delivers the industry’s lightest weight twin connector, which attaches to harness webbing below the back D-ring and features a Webbing Retainer Clip with a generous slot to accommodate thicker harness webbing designs.
Last May, 28-year-old Adrien Zamora fell 40 feet from a scaffold while restoring an 11-story building in New York. It was his first day on the job, and he had not been given a fall protection harness or the necessary safety training. He left behind a wife and their two young daughters.
The theme for this year’s International Society for Fall Protection (ISFP) symposium – which immediately follows Safety 2013 – is “Don’t Play the Odds.” Organizers promise that it will challenge the complacency that is often related to fall hazard risk.
The death toll from the Bangladesh factory building collapse rises, a U.N. report on occupational rates surprises, and OSHA chief Dr. David Michaels puts occupational health and safety into perspective in a speech on a solemn occasion. Here are the week’s top OEHS-related stories as featured on ISHN.com: