Fall-Protection Harnesses: Hazard Alert

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  Falls kill more than 300 construction workers every year and hurt thousands. Deadly falls on the job are from unprotected roof edges, roof and floor openings, scaffolds, ladders, structural steel, leading edges, open shafts, and more. Protect Yourself: Whenever fall protection is needed, make sure you have the right fall-protection system, know how it works, get trained to use it - and use it. Where eliminating the hazard, guardrails, or safety nets won't work, you need personal protective equipment (PPE) - fall-restraint systems, personal fall-arrest systems, or work positioning systems (on rebar). Restraint systems keep you from falling. Fall-arrest systems stop falls. You will need a full-body harness if you use one of these systems. A full-body harness has straps worn around your trunk and thighs, with one or more D-rings in back to attach the harness to other parts of the system. If you fall, a properly fitted harness spreads the stopping force over your thighs, pelvis, chest, and shoulders. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Body Weight Construction Industry Construction Materials Mortality Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Body-protection Body-regions Body-weight Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Equipment-design Equipment-operators Equipment-reliability Fall-protection Harnesses Hazards Height-factors Injuries Injury-prevention Mortality-data Personal-protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039447
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2004 Dec; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  Fall-protection harnesses: hazard alert
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c47f55435d9ab759808f0dbf00ba0bc42305ff39bf942c254463e7ff0180ec43e3e8366921035f391306a8e0ac70f245144fc8f7bc23d215daceff65d2d4ae32
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213080/cdc_213080_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 53.43 KB ]