Pure Safety Group’s Guardian Fall Protection brand has introduced a new cable lanyard, compatible for leading edges, that combines the lightweight durability of a fixed-length lanyard that permits up ...

What is the first thing that you think about when you see the words “fall protection?” Do you think of a harness? Guard rails? Or perhaps you think of OSHA violations and worker’s compensation cases.

Upper Great Plains lineman Shayne Bender demonstrates how to use a buck hook with a self-retracting lanyard to ascend a steel lattice tower at fall protection training in Mead substation. When the ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- Fall protection can be defined as a system or means to prevent or reduce the severity of injuries from a fall. Often, when we think of fall protection, we think of someone ...

The Shockwave2 combines the elastic leg feature of the original Shockwave with the benefits of a tie-back lanyard, eliminating the need for a separate anchor connector. Lanyard can be wrapped around a ...

These systems are designed to stop a fall — not to prevent it. Most of the requirements here apply to the equipment itself. The employer needs to ensure that equipment purchased for personal fall ...

Several factors have contributed to these alarming and disturbing statistics: * All fall protection equipment deteriorates with use and exposure over time, regardless of brand and/or manufacturer. * ...

Despite special emphasis programs from OSHA and increasingly sophisticated fall protection equipment, falls from heights remain a serious occupational safety challenge. In 2006, the Bureau of Labor ...

Over the past decade, businesses and regulators have focused more on preventing fatal workplace falls. Unfortunately, falls continue to occur at an alarming rate. Falls are one of the leading causes ...