Capital Safety says its DBI-SALA EZ-Stop Lanyard is lighter than ever and employs the industry’s first modular design with components that can be replaced individually when worn or damaged, rather ...

Pure Safety Group’s Guardian Fall Protection brand has introduced a new cable lanyard, compatible for leading edges, that combines the lightweight durability of a fixed-length lanyard that permits up ...

This video shows you how to inspect different types of lanyards - web lanyards and rope lanyards. OSHA requires that every piece of fall protection equipment is inspected by the worker prior to use ...

Remember those pictures of workers constructing the Empire State Building back in the early 1930s? On beams suspended a thousand feet up, they walked, they worked, and they even ate lunch, nary a look ...

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 ...

Several factors have contributed to these alarming and disturbing statistics: * All fall protection equipment deteriorates with use and exposure over time, regardless of brand and/or manufacturer. * ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...