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 ...

Falls are the leading cause of death and injury in construction. Of the 828 workplace deaths in private construction during 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 36 percent were ...

Falls account for four of the top 10 OSHA Citations and Fall Protection – General Requirements remain top of the list for the 14 th year in a row. We’ve prepared this brief to help you better ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...