FHM TRAINING TOOLS

1. FHM TRAINING TOOLS This training presentation is part of FHM’s commitment to creating and keeping safe workplaces. Be sure to check out all the training programs that are specific to your industry.

2. Fall Protection for Construction

3. Learning Objectives • At the end of this course you will: • Have knowledge and skills needed for fall hazards • Plan and work safely when hazards are present

4. Agenda • Today’s agenda: • Overview • Fall protection strategies • Types of equipment for fall arrest systems • Your responsibilities

5. Section 1 Overview

6. The Hazards of Working at Heights • Frequently cited OSHA provisions are failure to: • Protect workers from falls of 6 feet or more • Protect workers from falling into floor openings • Provide guardrails

7. The Hazards of Working at Heights • Hazards causing most fall-related injuries: • Unprotected sides, wall openings, and floor holes • Improper scaffold construction • Unguarded protruding steel rebar • Misuse of portable ladders

8. Employee Training • Training is required in the following areas: • The nature of fall hazards • Correct procedures for fall protection systems • Use and operation of protection devices • Roles in safety monitoring and fall protection plan • Limitation of equipment

9. Employee Training • Refresher training is required if there are: • Changes in the workplace • Changes in the types of fall protection systems • Inadequacies in an affected employee's knowledge

10. Control Measures • Control measures used to for serious hazards: • Perform work at ground level • Restrain worker so they can not reach the edge • Use aerial lifts • Use control line and personal fall arrest systems • Cover holes as they are created

11. Section 2 Fall Protection Strategies

12. Fall Protection Strategies • Fall Protection Strategies include: • Guardrails • Safety nets • Personal fall arrest systems • Warning lines • Controlled access zones • Safety monitoring • Covers • Fall protection plans

13. Guardrail Systems • A barrier to prevent employee falls to lower levels: • Specific requirements: • Height of top rails shall be 42 inches plus or minus 3 inches above walking or working level • Withstand force of at least 200 pounds

14. Safety Net • Safety nets must have: • Border rope for webbing • Minimum breaking strength of 5,000 pounds • Installations must be tested: • After initial installation or major repair • Before being used • Whenever relocated • At 6-month intervals if left in one place • Inspected for deterioration at least once weekly

15. Personal Fall Arrest System • Personal fall arrest systems: • Stops employee falls from working levels • Limit maximum arresting force to 1,800 lbs • Be rigged • Complete stop and limit maximum deceleration • Strength to withstand twice the potential impact energy

16. Warning Line System • Roof barrier warning of side or edge • Warning lines shall consist of: • Ropes • Wires • Chains • Supporting stanchions

17. Controlled Access Zones • Controlled access zone is permitted only in: • Overhand brick laying and related work • Fall Protection Plan for leading edge work • Controlled access zone should be as follows: • Consist of ropes, wires, tapes, or equivalent and supporting stanchions • Flagged • Rigged and supported • Minimum breaking strength of 200 pounds

18. Safety Monitoring • Safety monitoring permitted when: • Employees are engaged in low slope roofing work • Workers are covered by written fall protection plan • Employer designated competent person must: • Be able to recognize hazards • Monitor working or walking surfaces • Visual sight and communication • Can not be distracted duties

19. Covers • Covers protect employees from falls through holes: • Holes covered • Sites surveyed before working • Continually audit as work continues • Support two times the weight of employees

20. Fall Protection Plan • Written fall protection plan must state: • Why conventional fall protection systems cannot be used where the fall hazard is present • Measures taken to reduce or eliminate fall hazard where conventional fall protection systems cannot be used • An example fall protection plan is provided in the OSHA fall protection standard

21. Section 3 Personal Fall Arrest Equipment

22. Equipment Use, Care, and Maintenance • Equipment used: • Body harness • Vertical lifeline or lanyard • Horizontal lifeline • Webbing • Connectors • Anchorages

23. Body Harness • Body harnesses are designed to: • Minimize stress forces • Provides freedom of movement • Minimize force on the body in falls

24. Vertical Lifeline or Lanyard • Vertical lifeline or lanyard must have: • Strength of 5,000 lbs or more • Protected from being cut or abraded • Separate vertical lifeline for each employee • Self-retracting vertical lifelines have minimum strength of 3,000 lbs

25. Horizontal Lifeline • Horizontal lifelines: • Designed, installed, and used under supervision • Complete personal fall arrest system

26. Webbing • Ropes and straps used in: • Lifelines • Lanyards • Body harness strength component • Made from synthetic fibers

27. Connectors • Made of drop-forged, pressed or formed steel, or equivalent material: • Rings and Snap hooks • Minimum tensile strength of 5,000 lbs • Unless designed for it, do not engage to: • Webbing, rope, or wire • Each other • D-ring • Horizontal lifeline • incompatibly shaped object

28. Anchorages • Used in attachment of personal fall arrest equipment: • Must be independent of anchorage • Supports at least 5,000 lbs

29. Section 4 Your Responsibilities

30. Your Responsibilities • Your Responsibilities: • Recognize fall hazards in the workplace • Utilize fall protection strategies • Use personal fall arrest systems equipment

31. Additional Information • Additional Resources: • Stairways and Ladders: A Guide to OSHA Rules. OSHA Publication 3124, (2003) • Preventing Worker Deaths and Injuries from Falls Through Skylights and Roof Openings. NIOSH Publication No. 90-100, (1989, December) • Plain Language Revision of OSHA Instruction. STD 03-00-001 [STD 3-0.1A], (1999, June18)