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Items Tagged with 'fall protection standards'

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Fall Protection- Training Requirements (1926.503)
2020 Top Standards: OSHA most frequently violated standards

Fall Protection- Training Requirements (1926.503)

January 1, 2020

Fall Protection – Training Requirements (1926.503) was the eighth most-frequently cited agency standard in FY 2019. Construction industry employers filled the top three categories of most-cited industries for violations of this standard.


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Assess & control fall risks

Assess & control fall risks

Eliminating hazards is the first line of defense
Zach Pucillo
January 1, 2020

Fall protection has been the number one most frequently cited OSHA violation for several years now, which means, worksites simply are not understanding the need to keep employees upright. Employers continue to take significant unnecessary “risk” when it comes to workplace slips, trips and falls by not taking the appropriate measures in evaluating their worksites. 


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5 exposures that need protection

5 exposures that need protection

Hotspots for falls
Mark H. Stromme
December 4, 2019

When employees are performing construction work six feet or more above a lower level, you need to provide them with some type of fall protection. There is an exception for working on scaffolding — the threshold height for fall protection is ten feet. OSHA regulates falls at 1926 Subpart M.


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Skylights - will we ever solve the problem?

Nigel ellis
J. Nigel Ellis, Ph.D., P.E., CSP, CPE
June 24, 2019

Why do so many workers and building occupants die from falling through plastic skylights? Why do we have a BLS.gov line item on falling through skylights, average about 16-20/year work deaths in the USA through 2017?


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Fall protection ladder safety

Let’s take a different approach to ladder safety

Protection vs. prevention
David Francis
July 20, 2018
Every day 2,000 people are injured in a ladder-related accident. One hundred of those people suffer a long-term or permanent disability. And every day, one person dies; the numbers are continuing to rise.
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OSHA Walking-Working Surfaces; PPE (Fall Protection Systems) 1910.22

OSHA fall protection in construction standard

January 18, 2018

The final rule, 29 CFR Part 1926, Subpart M, which became effective on February 6, 1995, contains general fall protection requirements for construction work.


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Fall protection more than PPE

There’s more to fall protection than wearing PPE

Identify, evaluate & control
Wesley J. Maertz
September 1, 2017

Employers faced with these fall hazards tend to ignore the three lines of defense and go straight to personal protective equipment to solve their fall issues. What is needed is an understanding of the revised OSHA rule on walking and working surfaces and related fall protection consensus standards.


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ROOFTOP FALL PROTECTION

Safety Rail Source

April 1, 2017
Safety Rail Source has provided you rooftop fall protection since 1999. Specializing in non-penetrating roof edge railings, skylight screens, mobile fall protection, roof hatch railings and custom railings.
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CANTILEVER LIFT GATES

SRC Cantilever Lift Gates

April 1, 2017
Are your dock doors open in summer? Unguarded dock doors pose significant risk for falls resulting in serious injury. SRC Cantilever Lift Gates provide comprehensive fall protection solutions around loading dock areas.
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FREETECH HARNESS

The CMC / Roco FreeTech™ Harness

April 1, 2017
The CMC / Roco FreeTech™ Harness is a figure-8 style fall protection harness that integrates our patent-pending SwitchPoint™ System for improving the comfort and mobility of a suspended worker in a post-fall scenario.
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