Personal Fall Protection - Do I really need it?
Today in this blog we will be talking about personal fall protection equipment, up to what extent is it important? Why shall we use it? And how it can save our lives? First of all, we need to understand what exactly fall protection is? It is actually a series of controls that either restrain or arrest you and the restraining would be you never actually get to the hazard, so a fall would never occur. An arrest is basically if a fall would occur, the arrest portion would prevent you from hitting on the ground. That is essentially what fall protection is. Men wearing a Fall Protection working on a construction site We will talk and understand about the different types of fall protection. Let's begin with hierarchy of fall protection which shall be followed by the employers and workers to ensure their safety when working at height: First comes elimination in the hierarchy of fall protection whether if we can eliminate being working at height, the first control ...