Fall protection violations typically take top place every year on OSHA’s Top 10 list. While addressing your fall protection program with an eye toward preventing violations is good, it’s even better ...

Safety Video: Basics of Fall Protection Part 2 Part two of this Miller safety video reviews step-by-step approaches for inspecting fall protection safety equipment including harnesses, lanyards and ...

A worker can experience a fall in the blink of an eye, caused by a momentary lapse in concentration, misplaced footing, reaction to an unexpectedly loud noise, slipping or simply loss of balance.

Workplaces have undergone significant transformations in the 21st century. But you wouldn’t know if you looked at the violations the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues. In ...

According to the Commonly Used Statistics page on the OSHA website regarding the top 10 most frequently cited standards, the construction industry led the way in five of the top 10, including (1) fall ...

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 ...

While fall protection planning may be routinely considered in the wind tower industry, what role does rescue play in these plans? Many times, it isn't a fall that necessitates a rescue. Workers can ...

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 ...

From an inquiry, the Concrete Foundations Association discovered a gap that exists between experience with fall protection and interpretation of the current regulation. Question: Yesterday, an OSHA ...