Monday, November 14, 2011
Use and Selection Guides for Fall Protection PPE from ISEA
Theatre Safety Blog: Two new documents from the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) will help protect workers whose jobs expose them to fall hazards. A Personal Fall Protection Equipment Use and Selection Guide provides practical, hands-on guidance for fall protection users and administrators in their selection, use, maintenance and inspection of fall protection equipment. A companion document addresses topics in fall protection on which manufacturers get frequent inquiries.
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Guidelines and standards on fall protection are useful, but in the end how many are needed? The US already has an ANSI standard that covers working at heights, as do several parts of OSHA regulations. The UK also has their own set, as do several other countries. If there's a need for an international standard then I'm not sure an industry group is the place to begin it when so many national standards organizations have standing committees for that purpose. If a few of them were to work together then results might come a lot faster.
I think what you don't understand Tom, is that this doesn't appear to be an independent standard. It is trying to make a more understandable explanation of existing standards. In fact the first page of the document explains that it is based on OSHA and ANSI rules (which aren't really competing standards, but rather a symbiotic pairing.) What this document provides is a single document bringing this information together. For most folks, navigating the constellation of OSHA and ANSI standards, which aren't continuous can be very confusing and lead to omissions. By explaining them in one document, this might help people be in compliance without mounds of specific knowledge.
With the list of working at heights standards that Tom brought up, there are many places that disregard all of those standards. I think that it is now revisions and as Ethan said simple explanations of the standards that are needed as well as some sort of checks for said safety gear.
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