Fall Protection Regulations and statistic
- Federal legislation
- Provincial legislation
- Working at Heights legislation
Fall Protection equipment and system
Anchorage criteria:
- Selection
- Permanent
- Single use vs. reusable
Fall Protection equipment and systems
Personal Fall Protection Equipment:
- Body Belt vs. Full Body Harness
- Inspection procedures
- Lifelines & Fall Arresters / Rope Grabs
- Connectors and carabineers
- Storage and cleaning procedures
- How to properly fit a five point harness
- Equipment service life
- Orthostatic intolerance
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Identification of Hazards
- Warning Methods
- Physical Barriers \ Guardrails
- Ladders and Similar Equipment
- Basic physics of falling
- Travel restraint or fall arrest
- Exposure limits to the human body in fall arrest systems
- Rescue plans
- Fall Protection Recommendations
Program Objectives
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of; Employer, Constructor, Supervisor and worker, with respect to working at heights.
- Explain hazards posed by working at heights
- Describe the Hierarchy of Controls
- List safety procedures for warning methods and physical barriers, for ladders and other equipment.
- To learn basic knowledge of the physics of falling and how it relates to the human body during a fall arrest and post fall rescue.
- To become familiar with a variety of equipment and systems
- To learn about fall protection regulations (OHSA & CSA Standard).