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Preventing Falls at Work: Key Facts, Hazards & Safety Practices

Learn about falls, OSHA regulations, identifying hazards, fall protection practices, common fall-related hazards, scaffold & ladder safety, and worksite analysis.

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Preventing Falls at Work: Key Facts, Hazards & Safety Practices

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  1. Module 1 FALLS

  2. What You Will Learn • Important facts about falls • Important terms relating to falls • OSHA regulations relating to falls

  3. What You Will Learn—continued • How to identify practices that protect you from falls • How to find hazards at work that could cause falls • How to identify behaviors at work that could cause falls

  4. Find the Fall-Related Hazards

  5. Did You Know? • Falls from above are the leading cause of death for construction workers. • Falls from above cause 1/3 of all deaths in construction.

  6. Did You Know? • Falls from buildings create the most deaths. • Next are falls from scaffolds.

  7. Did You Know? • In all deaths from falls, the employee was not using fall protection, or was using it incorrectly. • A person doesn’t have to fall far to get hurt.

  8. Terms Ladder Scaffold Fall Protection

  9. Rolling Scaffold

  10. Suspended Scaffold

  11. Frame Scaffold

  12. Competent Person A competent person identifies hazards relating to scaffolds and takes prompt action to eliminate the hazards. A competent person must oversee the construction and use of scaffolds.

  13. Quiz Question #1 TRUE OR FALSE? If a lifeline is used, it must be secured above the point of operation, and the anchorage it is secured to must be capable of supporting a dead weight of 5,400 pounds.

  14. Quiz Question #1 TRUE OSHA 29 CFR 1926.104(b) Lifelines shall be secured above the point of operation to an anchorage or structural member capable of supporting a minimum dead weight of 5,400 pounds.

  15. Quiz Question #2 TRUE OR FALSE? It is okay to use a front-end loader to support a scaffold as long as the brake on the front-end loader is firmly set.

  16. Quiz Question #2 FALSE OSHA 29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(iv) Front-end loaders can not be used to support a scaffold unless they are specifically designed for that purpose.

  17. Quiz Question #3 TRUE OR FALSE? It is acceptable to access a scaffold by climbing on the scaffold’s crossbraces.

  18. Quiz Question #3 FALSE OSHA 29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1) Crossbraces must not be used as a means of access onto a scaffold.

  19. Quiz Question #4 TRUE OR FALSE? Guardrails do not have to be used if the platform a person is working on is large enough.

  20. Quiz Question #4 FALSE OSHA 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1) Employees working at a height of six feet or more must be protected by a guardrail.

  21. Quiz Question #5 TRUE OR FALSE? If a ladder is not long enough to reach the point where work needs to be done, it is acceptable to fasten two ladders together to provide a longer ladder to reach.

  22. Quiz Question #5 FALSE OSHA 29 CFR 1926.1053(a)(7) Ladders shall not be tied or fastened together to provide longer sections unless they are specifically designed for that purpose.

  23. What are Your Best Practices? When you work on a scaffold When you work on a ladder With fall protection

  24. Two Types of Hazard • Those that exist in the working conditions. • Those that are caused by a person’s behavior and lack of attention to safety.

  25. The Worksite Analysis 1. Identify your work space. 2. Look for hazards. 3.Use a checklist to identify hazards. 4.Discuss problems and corrections with supervisor.

  26. Fall-Related Hazards—Case #1

  27. Fall-Related Hazards—Case #2 Photo courtesy of Associated General Contractors of America

  28. Concerns at Your Worksite Give examples of how a worker’s behavior could create a fall hazard.

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