Personal protective equipment alone does not prevent height-related fatalities; combining standard hardware fundamentals with proactive behavioral planning creates a resilient site safety culture.

Workplaces have undergone significant transformations in the 21st century. But you wouldn’t know if you looked at the violations the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues. In ...

To keep up with the evolving technologies and related equipment in the fall protection industry, the ANSI/ASSP Z359 standards—or Fall Protection Code—are continuously advancing to provide ...

A partnership of standards, ANSI/ASSE Z359-2007 Fall Arrest Code, which takes effect this month, provides general industry with knowledgeable, practical norms and guidelines essential to a proactive ...

Many utility organizations may be unknowingly operating out of compliance with current fall protection requirements, according to a new FallTech white paper focused on utility, substation and power ...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) standards addressing fall protection. The new Z359.14 standard establishes requirements ...

Since its creation in 1971, OSHA has made a huge difference in worker safety but not directly. OSHA doesn’t come on site and show people how to work safely. So, what does OSHA do? Among other things, ...

No matter how agile you are, a fall can happen. Your foot slips on some lubricant that wasn’t supposed to be there, a load shifts, a guard rail wasn’t properly secured, or you were off balance for ...