Height Safety Protection Equipment
Just how far down do you need to fall to become seriously injured? Not more than a couple of metres. It’s easy to feel safe when your confidence is riding high up on your roof , especially if you have much work experience of working at height. But even the most self-assured, knowledgeable roofer or tree surgeon has experienced serious injury when working at height. Why? Because if something happens, you have no opportunity to react.You’re in the awful hands of gravity until the rocky terra firma arrests your fall.
So it’s utterly vital you protect yourself from such falls when working off the ground by utilising fall arrest safety equipment. It’s irrelevant if you’re just cutting a couple of limbs from a tree in your garden, arrest equipment like safety anchors is requisite.
What type of height safety equipment should you utilize? Well, depending on the business you must perform, you may be considering one in this list: Harnesses (including full body harness and sit harness), Pole straps, Slings, Static line rope and rope protection, Lanyards, Kits, Karabiners, Pulleys, and rope grabs and connectors.
If your job necessitates you to work in high places, for example quarries ,civil engineering, telecoms or manufacturing – you should have been drilled in height safety and be very familiar with height safety equipment. Otherwise, you are placing yourself at huge risk.
