FALL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT: AN IMPORTANT SAFETY FEATURE
After decades in the business, fall protection can be a laissez-faire enterprise for both employees and outside construction managers. While people logically know falls are dangerous, and that they can be life-changing (or life-ending) events, the comfort of routine roof climbs, upper-level framing, roof repairs, etc., makes it understandably easy to neglect the simplest of fall protection tenets. The reality, however, is that more than one-third of all workplace fatalities in 2010 occurred as the result of a fall, making falls the leading cause of construction-related fatalities. Nobody wants a member of their crew to contribute to that alarming statistic. Thus, proper fall protection equipment is one of the most important safety features your company can invest in. IMPLEMENT PROPER FALL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT & FALL PROTECTION GUIDELINES There are a few items that fall under the label "Fall Protection". They are: The four functional categories of fall protection: a...