The fall protection program provides procedures and guidelines to protect employees from the hazards associated with falls to lower levels such as from loading docks, rooftops and other heights.

OSHA 1926.502 examines fall protection system criteria and practices and provides equipment requirements. This is a starting point on which many companies base their fall protection plans.

These usually include equipment such as guard rails and scaffoldings, as well as process controls such as the training of workers. Fall protection, on the other hand, is the control implemented to ...

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A suburban contractor is facing his fifth fine from OSHA in two years due to alleged safety violations. The Department of ...

Federal inspectors have cited and proposed $266,000 in fines to a construction contractor in Zion for allegedly exposing employees to fall hazards, a repeat occurrence with the company. Inspectors ...

Her work focuses on falls, and she develops occupational safety translational products and performs evaluation for the OSHA-NIOSH-CPWR Falls Campaign. She holds a Master’s in Public Health from ...

The data offers a glimpse of the state of workplace safety in America, but it can't tell us the whole picture. Philip Jacklin of Diversified Fall Protection and Managing Editor Nicole Stempak discuss ...

A look at OSHA’s most cited violations of 2024 shows that there’s still work to be done, especially when it comes to working from heights. Workplaces have undergone significant transformations in the ...