Use of Full Body Harness With Lanyard
Use of Full Body Harness With Lanyard
Use of Full Body Harness With Lanyard
If you fall, the high force of the fall is concentrated at your waist rather than 6 points of a full body harness.
Fall Protection
Each employee on a scaffold 1.8 meters or more above a lower level will be protected from falling to that lower level.
Personal fall arrest systems used on scaffolds will be attached to a lanyard, horizontal lifeline, or scaffold structural
member.
Responsible supervisor are required to provide fall protection for employees erecting or dismantling supported
scaffolds where the installation and use of such protection is feasible and does not create a greater hazard.
Guardrails systems shall comply with the following provisions;
Top rail – installed between 38” and 45”
Mid rail – installed at a height approximately midway between the top edge of the guardrail system and the platform
surface.
Keep walkways free of obstacles, tools and equipment.
Keep platforms free of grease and mud.
Climb from one level to another using the ladders provided.
Use a crane, hoist or winch to carry materials up to and down from the scaffold
UNSECURED PLATFORM
deceleration devices.
• 100% tie-off
• Above shoulder
• Strong enough
• Not in conduit
• Not in electrical cable
• Not in air ducts
• Not in valve handles
• Not in chain blocks