Fall Protection
OREGON-DUTY TO HAVE FALL PROTECTION
In the state of Oregon it is the employer’s responsibility to establish, supervise and enforce a workplace safety & health policy (WSHP) that is effective in practice.
Subdivision 3/M of OAR 437 Fall Protection, Duty to have fall protection 1926.501 & 437-003-1501, Training requirements 437-003-0503.
Employers: Your duty to protect your employees goes beyond OR-OSHA’s fall protection training requirements for the construction industry (see above) If you can’t protect your employees with one of the fall protection systems or methods described in Subdivision 3/M you must protect them with another method.
Video by www.safetytrainingworks.com: Fall Protection Training
FALL PROTECTION TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
OR-OSHA 437-003-0503...
- Employees must be trained to recognize fall hazards and know procedures to follow to minimize the fall hazards.
- Employees must be trained before they begin tasks that could expose them to fall hazards or before they use fall protection systems.
- The trainer must be a competent person who understands the Fall Protection and fall hazards and can explain to the employees how to protect themselves.
CERTIFICATE OF FALL PROTECTION TRAINING…
OR-OSHA 437-003-0503 Each employee’s name, fall protection training date and the trainer’s signature must be documented in the training record.
WASHINGTON-DUTY TO HAVE FALL PROTECTION
In the state of Washington it is the employer’s responsibility to provide a safe working environment and to create an Accident Prevention Plan.
WAC 296-800-140 Your responsibility is to establish, supervise and enforce an Accident Prevention Plan (APP) that is effective in practice.
WAC 296-155-24505 Fall Protection Work Plan
The Employer shall develop and implement a written Fall Protection Work Plan including each area of the work place where the employees are assigned and where fall hazards of 10 feet or more exist. WAC 296-155-24505 (Section 4-Training of Employees)
FALL PROTECTION TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
WAC 296-155-24519, TRAINING Draft Wording
(1) Training of employees
- (a) The employer shall ensure that employees are trained as required by this section. Training shall be documented and shall be available on the job site.
- (b) “Retraining” When the employer has reason to believe that any affected employee who has already been trained does not have the understanding and skill required by WAC 296-155-24519 (1) the employer shall retrain each such employee. Circumstances where retraining is required include, but are not limited to, situations where:
- Changes in workplace render previous training obsolete or
- Changes in types of fall protection system or equipment
- Inadequacies in employee’s knowledge of fall protection systems
WASHINGTON-COMPLIANCE for Fall Protection
- Safety and Health Core Rules WAC 296-800
- General Safety and Health Rules WAC 296-24
- Standards for Construction Work WAC 296-155
- Fall Protection WAC 296-155-245 part C-1
- Scaffold WAC 296-874
- Ladders, Portable Fixed WAC 296-876
- Elevating Work Platforms WAC 296-869 (Including Aerial Lifts WAC 296-869-200)
- Powered Platforms WAC 296-870
- Draft wording for amendments to WAC 296-155 Part C-1 11/08
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After participating in the aerial lift webinar, there are two circumstances from my personal experience that I’d like to share. Unfortunately, each case ended with a fatality, so this reinforces the need for formal training. In the first situation, a city electrical utility boom truck had tied-off to a metal pole that was damaged. The plan was to attach a rope to it, remove the bolts that attached it to its base, and then lower it to the ground. When the last bolt was removed, the pole sprung from its base due to the excessive tension on the rope. The occupant was catapulted out of the basket. I’ll never forget being told that the victim was one of those workers who always told others to always wear their harness and lanyard….
The other situation happened when a maintenance man was steering a fully extended scissors lift outdoors on an asphalt pathway. His intent was to change a bulb in a light fixture. In his case, he was wearing a harness and lanyard per company policy. However, he failed to notice that one of the wheels was rolling off the edge of the pathway. This resulted in the equipment toppling to the frozen ground. His impact with the ground caused multiple internal injuries. When the incident was reported to a room full of supervisors, the safety coordinator was asked if the scissors lift operator had been trained to safely operate the lift. The maintenance manager spoke up and said, “No, but he had operated it safely for the last 9 years.” That was the wrong answer then and was also the wrong answer as far as the OSHA compliance officer was concerned.
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