Fall Protection and Prevention: Complying with OSHA Standards
Location: Attend Live Webinar
Dates: 29-Sep-2016: 1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 90 Mins
Speaker: Michael J. Dudek
Michael Dudek is an experienced safety and health professional with a Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Safety and Health from Columbia Southern University. Mike is an Authorized OSHA Outreach Instructor with extensive experience in both General Industry and Construction.
Mike was also an authorized EMS Safety and American Red Cross Lay Responder First Aid, CPR/AED Instructor and has completed numerous OSHA safety training programs including: OSHA 30 Hour Construction Safety, 10 Hour General Industry Safety, 40 Hour Hazardous Waste Site Worker Training, OSHA Disaster Site Safety Trainer, Fall Protection Competent Person, and other Educational Training programs in areas of Electrical Safety, Lock-Out/Tag-Out, Confined Space Entry, Hazard Communication, Aerial Lift Safety, Rigging/Hoisting, and Ladder Safety.
Prior to his work in the Construction Industry, Mike spent more than 25 years as a Millwright Welder as well as the Skilled Trades Trainer and Rep for General Motors. During his time at GM, he played an integral part in founding the first departmental Safety Committee for his facility.
Mike was also a part-time Millwright and Maintenance Mechanic Apprentice Instructor at Middlesex County Vo-Tech and an MSF Motorcycle Safety Instructor.
Course Description:
Falls from heights are the leading cause of death in construction. Most fatalities occur when employees fall from unprotected decks and floors and through openings. Falls from as little as 4 to 6 feet can cause serious lost time, injury, and death. Open-sided floors, decks, and platforms 6 feet or more in height must be guarded. Three of OSHA's 2015 Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards are fall related. According to 29CFR1926.501(b)(1) each employee on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge which is 6 feet (1.8 meters) or more above a lower level shall be protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems. Fall protection is needed on all walkways and ramps, open sides and edges, holes, concrete forms and rebar, excavations, roofs, wall openings, bricklaying, and in residential construction.
How do we protect ourselves and other workers from fall?
Hierarchy of Controls: Engineering Controls, Safe Work Practices, and Personal Fall Arrest System PFAS
Engineering Controls, Safety Nets, Guard Rails
Safe Work Practices: Change how we do the job. Do as much as possible on the ground to limit the workers’ exposure to the hazard.
Personal Fall Arrest System (PFAS) – Full Body Harness, Energy-Absorbing or Retractable Lanyard, Approved Anchorage Point
Engineering Controls Examples: Guard rails with top rails between 39 and 45 inches tall, a mid rail, and toe boards at least 3 1/2 inches high.
Safety Nets must be placed as close as possible, but no more than 30 feet below where employees work.
Work Practice Controls: Build it on the ground and install in one piece.
Example: roof or bridge trusses
Personal Fall Arrest System: Approved anchorage point, Energy absorbing or self-retracting lanyard, and a full body harness.
Floor holes must also be covered, A proper hole covering consists of an anchored Down Sheet of ½” of thicker plywood with the words “HOLE” or “COVER” emblazoned with bright Orange or red paint.
Fall distances must be calculated so that if a worker does fall while wearing fall protection he/she would not hit the ground.
Fall Restraint must also be considered. Fall restraint makes it impossible for the worker to fall at all.
Fall Rescue: Plans must be made to rescue a fall protected worker in the event of a fall.
Falls from and onto the same level can also be taken into account.
Alternate means of fall protection: controlled access zones, controlled decking zones, safety monitor system, written fall protection plans, steel erection, fall protection on scaffolding.
In order to not slow the project down later, fall protection must be pre-planned into the job before the job begins.
The employer shall provide a training program for each employee who might be exposed to fall hazards. The program shall enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and shall train each employee in the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards.
This program fulfills this requirement.
Course Objective:
The objectives for this course are twofold. First of all, since falls are the number one killer of workers in the construction industry, it is important for employees and employers to be properly trained to remain safe.
Secondly, This course is an inexpensive, low stress means of complying with the OSHA Standard 1926.503(a)(1)
Course Outline:
This seminar will enable employers and workers in construction occupations who are potentially exposed to potential falls to be protected.
Introduction
Nature of Falls
How Fall Exposure Occurs
Preventing Workers from Falling
Follow the Hierarchy of Controls: Engineering Controls: Work Practice Controls, Personal Fall Arrest Systems
Fall Distances
Training Requirements
Fall Rescue
Alternate Fall Protection: Exclusion Zone, Controlled Decking Zone, Fall Monitor, Steel Erection.
Conclusion, Question and Answers
Target Audience:
Safety personnel
Construction Trade-Workers Including: Equipment Operators, Laborers, Carpenters, Electricians, Plumbers, Iron Workers, HVAC Mechs, Millwrights, Welders, Riggers, Teamsters, etc.
Construction Management Personnel: Superintendents, Project Managers, Project Engineers, Inspectors, etc.
Facility personnel with responsibility for safety and health
Safety Managers/Site Safety Engineers
Managers and Supervision
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