Personal Fall Arrest System Ladder

The design allows the trolley to remain attached to the user to eliminate the potential for dropping and creating lost time incidents or causing potential injury.

Personal fall arrest system ladder.

Falls from ladders are a leading cause of fatal injuries in general industry and construction. Replacement of cages and wells used as fall protection with ladder safety or personal fall arrest systems on all fixed ladders over 24 feet november. Effective january 17th 2017. Osha recently published a final rule on walking working surfaces and fall protection that updated safety regulations for ladder use.

The new rule phases in a requirement for employers to provide ladder safety or personal fall arrest systems for fixed ladders that extend more. In your letter you assert that personal fall arrest systems will not arrest a fall from an elevation lower than 15 feet. The distance a ladder section is located above the ground or a rest platform and thus the distance that a worker climbing on the ladder could fall determines whether a personal fall arrest system or a ladder safety system is required. If the fall distance exceeds 24 feet regardless of the length of the ladder section the employer must equip.

Personal fall arrest systems can be set up to limit arrested falls to less then 15 feet. Installation of a personal fall arrest or ladder safety system is determined by the height the ladder extends above the ground lower level and the distance a worker on the ladder could fall not the length of a particular ladder or a ladder section. When anchored above the worker a typical personal fall arrest system will arrest a fall in 6 feet or less. The design allows the sleeve trolley to remain attached to the user to eliminate the potential for dropping and creating lost time incidents or causing potential injury.

Where application heights exceed 24 feet a form of fall protection is required. The ladder cable fall arrest system with automatic pass through sleeve provides the ultimate in safety and security with continuous fall protection when climbing fixed ladders on poles towers tanks etc. With cai safety s ladder vertical fall arrest system you have safety and security when climbing fixed ladders on poles towers tanks etc. Safe access to platforms and rooftops depends on the quality and durability of the ladders along with the ladder fall protection system in place.

Our kattclimb ladder fall arrest system provides continuous hands free fall protection.