Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Post

Stay safe and informed! 🦺 Check out this video of our OSHA compliance officer breaking down the essentials of fall protection when working at heights. Learn about employer responsibilities and the top 3 features of fall prevention harnesses must-haves!

Conor F. Deubell

Environmental Health and Safety Manager at Lactalis

2mo

PFAS are a type of Fall Protection not Fall Prevention. Fall Prevention is preventing the fall from Happening, such as as a guard rails system or an anchorage with 8’ lanyard when the edge is 10’, it physically prevents the employee from reaching the fall hazard. Fall protection would be protectingthe worker after the fall, like a PFAS. They are two comepletey different types of controls. I’m pretty shocked this wasn’t caught before posting.

William K.

Consulting Safety Engineer

2mo

This video only applies to situations where personal fall arrest is a necessary option. PFAS is not fall prevention, as a person wearing a fall arrest harness can certainly fall. It is fall protection. It also has some serious shortcomings and therefore is not to be seen as the first level of defense, or even the second. My suggestion is to have experts decide what the point of your video releases should be and who the target audience is before having those experts script your videos. Although compliance staff can appear in the videos, they should not be the people writing them.

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Houcine BOUDJEMAA

Assistant Direct General Hygiene sécurité environment

2mo

Conclusion Les accidents du travail qui résultent de chutes de hauteur se traduisent generalement par des blessures, fractures et traumatismes de toutes sortes externes ou internes, Les conséquences peuvent être diverses et parfois particulièrement graves, voire mortelles.

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Houcine BOUDJEMAA

Assistant Direct General Hygiene sécurité environment

2mo

Il.Conviendrait de porter correctement un harnais de sécurité et l'attacher à l'aide d'une longe absorbante d'énergie à un point d'ancrage adéquat.

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Houcine BOUDJEMAA

Assistant Direct General Hygiene sécurité environment

2mo

Le système antichute ou d'un système de retenue, se composent de trois pièces d'équipement essentielles : les ancrages, les longes et les harnais

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... just another example of OSHA not quite understanding their own standards vs. the real work place hazards and risks!

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Geneva Gutierrez Vasquez

Pediatric Occupational Therapist at THE CRUZ CENTER, P.C.

2mo

Love this

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ROLANDO CAVAZOS

Manejo de Sólidos a Granel y Proteccion en Trabajos en Alturas.

2mo

Gracias por compartir!!

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