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 ...

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.

A partnership of standards, ANSI/ASSE Z359-2007 Fall Arrest Code, which takes effect this month, provides general industry with knowledgeable, practical norms and guidelines essential to a proactive ...

A for anchorage: A secure, structural point of attachment for the fall arrest system. The anchorage connector provides a means of attaching the personal fall arrest system to the anchorage. Anchorage ...

Fall Arrest System, Machinery Cart New equipment from Man Lift Engineering can be used to enhance workers’ safety. Its fall arrest system allows workers to walk outside a platform to carry out tasks ...

ANSI/ASSP. (2007). Safety requirements for personal fall arrest systems, subsystems (ANSI/ASSP Z359.1-2007). Des Plaines, IL: Author. ANSI/ASSP. (2012a). Fall protection systems for construction and ...

OSHA reports that fall protection (1926.501) was the number one most frequently cited standard in FY 2022. Here are the top 5 subparagraphs cited under fall protection. 1926.501(b)(13) 1926.501(b)(1) ...