Preventing Falls Using Height Safety Equipment
You’d be shocked to know how little you have to fall do wound or even kill yourself – just a few metres. It’s easy to feel assured when your confidence is riding high up on your roof and have much experience of heights in high areas. Yet, even the most certain, experienced tree surgeon or roofer has succumbed to serious injury while working at height. Why? Because if something happens, you have no chance to respond.You’re in the terrible hands of gravity until the unyielding terra firma checks your fall.
Therefore absolutely vital you prevent yourself from such falls when working at height by employing fall arrest equipment. It doesn’t matter if you’re just reducing a few branches off a tree in your garden, arrest equipment like safety anchors is requisite.
What kind of fall arrest safety equipment are we talking about here? Depending on the task you need to carry out, you should be looking at one in this list: Harnesses (including full body harness and sit harness), Pole straps, Slings, Static line rope and rope protection, Lanyards, Kits, Karabiners, Pulleys, and rope grabs and connectors.
If you work at height in your daily job, for example quarries ,civil engineering, telecoms or manufacturing – you should already have been drilled in working safely at heights and be au fait with height safety equipment. Otherwise, you are placing yourself at a huge risk of a mishap.
