Comprehensive Guide to Fall Protection Standards: ANSI Requirements and Best Practices

1. Sub-Part M Fall Protection

2. Fall Protection What kind of standard is it? • Horizontal / General • Performance Standard

3. Fall Protection Why the need for a new standard? 4 feet 6 feet 10 feet 25 feet 30 feet Roofing was covered under Sub-Part L, Scaffolds.

4. Fall Protection Scope • Apply when not specifically addressed elsewhere. • Apply when construction work is being done. • Does not apply to: Scaffolds Cranes Ladders Tunneling Power Transmission

5. Fall Protection Scope • Does not apply before actual work • Does not apply after work is done.

6. Fall Protection When to provide fall protection • Free fall 6 feet • Structural Integrity • Trip on step in holes • Dangerous Equipment • Implement SubPart Q

7. Fall Protection Overhead: • Hard Hats • Barricades • Toeboards • Screens • Debris Nets

8. Fall Protection Training Requirements: The employer shall provide training Who might be exposed To recognize Procedures to follow Certification of Training • Employee Signature • Trainer Signature

9. Fall Protection Safe distance from the edge • You must always have fall protection • or follow OSHA guidelines

10. Fall Protection Two types of fall protection • fall arrest • positive

11. Fall Protection ANSI Requirements 42” Plus/ Minus 3” 45” For Pour Top rail 200# w/min 3” deflection Mid-rail 150# w/min 3” deflection

12. Fall Protection ANSI Requirements Toeboards 50# No snags ANSI 19” opening No gaps Around holes offset

13. Fall Protection Wood Guardrail Lumber 2x4 top rail Post every 8 feet or equivalent

14. Fall Protection Wire Rope 1/4” 1/2” For Steel Erection Flagged Every 6’ Problems with wire rope

15. Fall Protection Pipe 1 1/ 2 inch sch 40

16. Fall Protection Steel 2 x 2 x 3/8

23. Fall Protection Floor Holes What is a hole? Means a gap or void 2” or more in its least dimension which a person or object could fall through.

24. Fall Protection Floor Hole Cover Requirements • Secured • Signage • Safety factor of x2 for personnel • Safety factor of x2 for equipment • Holes for passage - guardrail offset

25. Fall Protection Fall Arrest January 1, 1998 Body Belts Non Locking Snap Hooks

26. Fall Protection What can a body belt be used for? Restraint ONLY.

27. Fall Protection Fall Arrest Shock Loads Web Lanyard 4353 # Rope 2542 # Shock Absorbing Soft Stop 786 #

28. Fall Protection Fall Protection Anchorage Points 5000 # for 6’ Fall Arrest 3000 # for Position Device or Recoil Device When a qualified person determines that a shock load of safety factor x2, you can follow appendix (C).

29. Fall Protection Safe Use of Lanyards Inspected daily by user and qualified person as well as anchorage points and harness: • Cuts, abrasions,deteriorations, burns • Means of rigging • Entanglement hazard • Roll out • Tie into self • Compatible hardware

30. Fall Protection Snap Hook • Unless the snap hook is a locking type and designed for the following connections, snap hooks shall not be engaged: • directly to webbing, rope or wire rope; • to each other; • to a dee-ring to which another snap hook or other connector is attached;

31. Fall Protection Snap Hook • to a horizontal lifeline; or • to any object which is incompatibly shaped or dimensioned in relation to the snap hook such that unintentional disengagement could occur by the connected object being able to depress the snap hook keeper and release itself.

32. Fall Protection Deceleration Device 1 - per arrest system 3 1/2 deceleration distances

33. Fall Protection Shock Loading Qualified person after each in service load Recoil device - MFG guidelines

34. Fall Protection Static Lines - Safety Factor 2 (right angle in service loading follow Appendix C, paragraph (H)(6) 30 degrees) Horizontal - Vertical 5000 # x total persons on

35. Fall Protection Rescue Plan • In writing • On site • Documented training done

36. Fall Protection Vertical Walls Rebar 24’ free climb 3000 # 2’ lanyard

37. Fall Protection Nets are no longer only feasible choice. They are an available choice. Rarely used Long period of time consuming work Must be as close as practical Must be free of trash

38. Fall Protection Never more than 30 feet Cannot bounce out of Free fall into the net Net designed for fall arrest

39. Fall Protection Drop tested or a qualified person will sign off when initially installed 6 MO. Anchorage points 5000# 6 inch squares

40. Fall Protection

41. Fall Protection Low Slope 4/12 Pitch

42. Fall Protection 1926.502 Fall protection systems and practices (k) Fall protection plans Only available for leading edge work, precast concrete erection, or residential construction work.

43. Fall protection systems & practices • Demonstrated unfeasibility or greater hazard • Prepared/implemented by qualified person for each site • Maintained up to date • Can only be changed by qualified person

44. Fall protection systems and practices • Must be at a site • Document why plan is needed • Include a written discussion of other measures to reduce or eliminate hazards • Identify each location where plan is needed

45. Fall protection systems and practices

46. Fall protection systems and practices Residential Where material and methods are essentially the same as residential construction. 6/12 slide guards along the entire eave.

47. Fall protection systems and practices Residential 6/12 up to 8 /12 requires eave slide guards and additional slide guards directly below the worker 8 feet. Greater than 8/12 or more than 4/12 and in excess of 25 feet conventional fall protection will be provided.

48. Fall protection systems and practices Scaffolds September 2, 1998 The employer shall ensure that a competent person will determine the feasibility of fall protection for persons engaged in the erecting and the dismantling of supported scaffolds.

49. Fall protection systems and practices Booms and Scissors 29 CFR 1926.453 (G) Scissor lifts straight up and down with railing are not required to have fall protection unless you are off of the working deck. Booms, as soon as you step into the bucket, you are required to be tied off. Current ANSI requirements.

50. Fall protection systems and practices Steel Erection, sub-part M does not apply to steel erection with the exception of arrest systems.