Protection from Falls with Height Safety Equipment
You’d be surprised to know how little you have to fall do wound or even kill yourself – just a few metres. It’s understandable to assume you are safe when your confidence is riding high up on your roof particularly if you have plenty of experience of heights in high areas. Even so, even the most assured, experienced roofer or tree surgeon has succumbed to serious injury when working off the ground. Why? Because if you slip, you’ve absolutely no chance to react. Once gravity takes over, you have zero opportunity to remediate the slip.
Therefore absolutely essential you prevent yourself from falls when working off the ground by using fall arrest safety equipment. It doesn’t matter if you’re merely cutting a couple of branches off a tree, working at height safety equipment is obligatory.
What type of fall arrest safety equipment are we talking about here? Depending on the business you need to carry out, you may be looking at one of the following: Pole straps, Slings, Harnesses, Static line rope and rope protection, Lanyards, Kits, Karabiners, rope grabs and connectors and Pulleys.
If you work at height in your daily job, such as construction engineering, quarries ,docks and ports – you should already have been prepared in height safety and be very familiar with height safety equipment. If not, you are putting yourself at huge risk.
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