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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

With linemen no longer able to free-climb, electric utilities nationwide have invested in new fall protection equipment for wood poles, modified work practices, and designed and retrofitted towers to ...

It has been said that you don’t know what you don’t know. My goal with this article is to show you something you “didn’t know you didn’t know” about fall protection for firefighters. Before you turn ...

The fall protection market has expanded, even exploded, over the past 10 years," says Ron Cox, vice president for the fall protection division at Bacou-Dalloz, a leading global manufacturer of ...

According to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, a fall protection system must be used when work is being done at a place from which a fall of 3 metres (10 feet) or more may occur, or where ...