Articles Tagged with ''fall prevention''

Winter weather is unpredictable enough without having to worry about walking from point A to point B and making it in one piece. YakTrax® Ice Traction Device for your shoes is the answer. It stretches over any footwear from boots to jogging shoes and stays in place.

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.

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?

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.