*Always read all instruction manuals before product use.

*All components fully comply with current OSHA standards.

*Effective January 1, 1998 body/waist belts will not be allowed.

• Requirements for Use
• Federal OSHA Regulations
• Warnings!
• Glossary of Fall Protection Terms
• Fall Protection Training
• Fall Protection Products

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OSHA (1925.502, Subpart M)

*Effective February 6, 1995 any employee engaged in construction activities 6 feet or more above lower levels shall be protected from falling by one of three methods.

1: Personal Fall Arrest Systems

2: Guardrail Systems

3: Safety Net System

 

*Effective February 6, 1995 any employee on a walking/working surface 6 feet or more above lower levels shall be protected from falling by one of the following methods.

1: Personal Fall Arrest Systems

2: Guardrail Systems

3: Safety Net System

*The new OSHA mandates for Fall Protection apply to: Building construction, heavy construction and special trade construction. Construction work includes new construction as well as additions, alterations, reconstruction, maintenance and repairs.


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Requirements for Use

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

For use by properly trained professionals only.

Occupational Protective Equipment (OPE) must only be used for the specific purpose for which it is designed and intended.

Whenever there is a risk of a fall, personal fall-arrest protection must be used. Use only harnesses meeting OSHA standards for fall-arrest.

Always attach connector to proper anchor point for the intended use of the proper D-ring of belt or harness. For fall-arrest, use designated rear D-ring of harness. NEVER use a belt for fall-arrest. For positioning, use designated side D-rings. For retrieval, use designated shoulder D-rings.

All components of a system must be removed from service if subjected to impact loading or upon failure of daily inspection.

OPE equipment must be inspected every day.

Connectors, harnesses, lanyards, deceleration devices and lifelines must be destroyed after being subjected to impact.

DO NOT alter any component used for OPE equipment.

Rig to avoid contact with structures below in a fall. Free-fall distance must not exceed 6 ft. (1.8M). When using a deceleration device, OSHA requires an additional 3 1/2 ft. added to free fall distance.

Always attach fall-arrest connecting devices that meet OHSA standards only to the rear fall-arrest D-ring.

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Warnings!

Read carefully and understand how to follow all instructions before using. A fall could result in serious injury or death. Do Not Use unless properly trained.

A fall could result in serious injury or death. Do not use unless properly trained. Read, understand and follow all instructions.

The end user must read, understand and follow all instructions, cautions and warnings attached to, packaged or provided with all occupational protective equipment provided by ALTA Industries before use.

Application for this equipment follows American National Standard Institute for A10.14 to be used in compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Act. (OSHA)

OSHA requires workers to utilize fall protection when exposed to a fall of six (6) feet or more.

EMPLOYER ­ Always instruct your employees as to the proper use of all occupational safety equipment.

The employer and employee should at all times be aware that a system's maximum arresting force is evaluated under normal use conditions.


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Glossary of Fall Protection Terms

"Personal Fall-Arrest System" means a system used to arrest a worker in a fall from a working level. It consists of an anchorage point, connectors, a body harness, and may include a lanyard, deceleration device, lifeline or suitable combinations of these.

"Positioning System" means a system used to position a worker at an appropriate work level. It consists of an anchorage, connectors, body belt or body harness, and may include a lanyard.

"Retrieval System" means the equipment (including a retrieval line, chest or full-body harness, wristlets, if appropriate, and a lifting device or anchor) used for non-entry rescue of persons from permit-required spaces.

"Anchorage" means a secure point of attachments for lifelines, lanyards, or deceleration devices, and which is independent of the means for supporting or suspending the employee.

1. Anchorage to which "personal fall-arrest equipment" is attached shall be capable of supporting at least 5,000 pounds (22.2kN) per employee attached.
2. Anchorage to which a "positioning device" is attached shall be capable of supporting at least twice the potential impact load of an employee's fall or 3,000 lbs., whichever is greater, and shall be independent of the means for fall-arrest of the employee.
3. Anchorage to which each installation of a "retrieval device" is attached shall be capable of sustaining a load of at least 3,000 lbs. applied in any direction permitted by the system when in use.

"Body Harness" means a design of straps which may be secured about the employee in a manner to distribute the fall-arrest forces over at least the thighs, pelvis, waist, chest and shoulders with means for attaching it to other components of a personal fall-arrest system.

"Body Belt" means a strap with means for securing it about the waist and for attaching it to a positioning device or lanyard.

"Connector" means a device which is used to couple (connect) parts of the system together. It may be an independent component of the system (such as a carabiner), or an integral component of part of the system (such as a buckle or D-ring sewn into a body harness, or a snap-hook spliced or sewn to a lanyard or self-retracting lanyard).

"Deceleration Device" means a mechanism, such as a rope grab ripstitch lanyard, specially woven lanyard, tearing of deforming lanyard, or automatic self-retracting lifeline/lanyard, which serves to dissipate a substantial amount of energy during a fall-arrest, or otherwise limits the energy imposed on an employee during fall-arrest.

"Free-Fall Distance," means the vertical displacement of the fall-arrest attachment point on the employee's body harness between onset of the fall and just before the system begins to apply force to arrest the fall. This distance excludes deceleration distance, lifeline and lanyard elongation but includes any deceleration device slide distance or self-retracting lifeline/lanyard extension before they operate and fall-arrest forces occur.

"Lanyard" means a flexible line of rope, wire rope, or strap which is used to secure the body harness to a deceleration device, lifeline, or anchorage.

"Lifeline" means a component consisting of flexible line for connection to an anchorage at one end to hang vertically (vertical lifeline), or for connection to anchorages at both ends to stretch horizontally (horizontal lifeline), and which serves as a means for connecting other components of a personal fall-arrest system to the anchorage.

"Rope Grab" means a deceleration device which travels on a lifeline and automatically frictionally engages the lifeline and locks so as to arrest the fall of an employee. A rope grab usually employs the principle of inertial locking, cam/level locking, or both.


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