As part of our extended look at preventing falls in construction, all of which is part of our observance of the recent 2018 National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction, we’re going to take a look at the the fall prevention & protection hierarchy of controls in this article.

In addition to this article, remember we’ve also written the following related to falls, fall prevention, and fall protection recently:

• 2018 Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction
• 3 Safety Tips When Using Aerial Lifts
• 3 Safety Tips When Wearing a Fall Protection Harness
• 3 Safety Tips for Scaffolds
• 3 Ladder Safety Tips

There are also many other great fall protection resources out there, including the OSHA Fall Protection/Prevention Safety and Health Topic Page and this CDC/NIOSH Falls in the Workplace website. Please use the comments section at the bottom of this article if there are other fall prevention & protection resources out there you’d like to share with other readers.

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The 2018 national Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction organized by OSHA was this month. As a result, we’re writing a series of articles here to provide some helpful tips related to falls, fall prevention, and fall protection.

In this article, we’ll give you a few simple and easy-to-implement safety tips for working with aerial lifts. You might also be interested in our other articles related to falls that we created for the Safety Stand-Down week, including:

• 2018 Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction
• 3 Safety Tips When Wearing a Fall Protection Harness
• 3 Safety Tips for Scaffolds
• 3 Ladder Safety Tips
• The Fall Prevention & Protection Hierarchy of Controls

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Since the national Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls was just a week or two ago, we thought we’d follow up with some additional articles on preventing falls.

In this article, we’re going to provide a few quick, easy, and important tips on wearing a fall protection harness.

You might also want to check out the other articles related to falls and fall prevention that we created for the national Safety Stand-Down:

• 2018 Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction
• 3 Safety Tips When Using Aerial Lifts
• 3 Safety Tips for Scaffolds
• 3 Ladder Safety Tips
• The Fall Prevention & Protection Hierarchy of Controls

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As you probably know, another national Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction has come and gone.

But although the Safety Stand-Down is past, the risk (and reality) of falls in construction has not.

As a result, we’re taking a closer look at some issues related to falls in construction in a series of articles. This article will focus on fall hazards related to scaffolds.

In addition to this article, we’ve also put together the following ones related to falls, fall prevention, and fall protection for the Safety Stand-Down:

• 2018 Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction
• 3 Safety Tips When Using Aerial Lifts
• 3 Safety Tips When Wearing a Fall Protection Harness
• 3 Ladder Safety Tips
• The Fall Prevention & Protection Hierarchy of Controls

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As we mentioned in an earlier article, the National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction just passed. Because falls in construction are such a major cause of injuries and fatalities at work, we’re dedicating a few articles at this time to providing some fall-related safety tips to make sure you and your coworkers go home safely every night.

In this article, we’re going to take a look at some ladder safety tips. Ladders are especially dangerous–every year, about 70 construction workers die when falling from ladders, and in addition about 4,000 construction workers experience an injury as a result of falling from a ladder that’s so severe they miss work.

So, let’s learn three simple safety tips for staying safer while working with ladders. And don’t forget to scroll down to the very bottom of this article, where you can download a free portable ladder self-inspection checklist. 

In addition to this article, we also created the following articles on topics related to falls, fall prevention, fall protection, and fall hazards/risks that might interest you as well:

• 2018 Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction
• 3 Safety Tips When Using Aerial Lifts
• 3 Safety Tips When Wearing a Fall Protection Harness
• 3 Safety Tips for Scaffolds
• The Fall Prevention & Protection Hierarchy of Controls

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The National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction was last week (May 7-11, 2018).

In this article, we’ll review what a safety stand-down is, why we have them, and how we can help prevent falls and especially fatal falls in the construction industry.

I was lucky enough to attend a special Fall Prevention training course offered by the University of Washington’s Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and their Pacific Northwest OSHA Education Center that was timed to coincide with the Fall Prevention Safety Stand-Down. In addition to the experts with UW-DEOHS/PNWOEC, there were other experts from industry (AGC), Oregon OSHA, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE), and more. In short, it was a rock-star-studded event.

And so in the article below, we’ll also give some credit to all those fine presenters and highlight some of what I learned there.

In addition to this blog post, watch for one or more blog posts related to fall prevention to follow shortly.

As always, we hope these articles help improve safety at the workplace, and that’s especially true in fall prevention, where the need is so great.

In addition to this article focusing on the Safety Stand-Down itself, we’ve prepared some additional fall-related articles you may appreciate as well. So check these out too:

• 3 Safety Tips When Using Aerial Lifts
• 3 Safety Tips When Wearing a Fall Protection Harness
• 3 Safety Tips for Scaffolds
• 3 Ladder Safety Tips
• The Fall Prevention & Protection Hierarchy of Controls

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